Splaisir

Top choice in Myeong-dong & Jung-gu


This hotel has rooms dedicated to Line Friends – cartoon characters from popular Japanese-Korean social-media app Line – so fans of cuteness overload and giant stuffed chickens staring at them while sleeping will be in four-star paradise here near Namdaemun Market. Otherwise, immaculate, minimalist rooms – dressed in bamboo browns and whites holding hinoki-wood soaking tubs and soft beds – are much calmer.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Myeong-dong & Jung-gu attractions

1. Bank of Korea Money Museum

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Built in 1912, and an outstanding example of Japanese colonial architecture, the old Bank of Korea now houses a reasonably interesting exhibition on the…

2. Namdaemun Market

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You could spend all day in this swarming night-and-day market and not see it at all. The largest market in Korea, each section has hundreds of stalls,…

3. Deoksugung Stone Wall Road

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Outside to the left of Deoksugung's main gate, the palace's stone southern wall creates a curved path shaded by 130 trees with benches where locals stop…

4. Seoul Plaza

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Seoul Plaza, fronting City Hall, is the scene for events and free performances most nights during summer, as well as an outdoor ice-skating rink for a…

5. Sungnyemun

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Standing alone on an island (in direct contrast to the mayhem around it), Seoul’s picturesque Great South Gate, Sungnyemun, is one of the capital's…

6. Gungisi Relics Exhibition Hall

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Head down to the basement of City Hall to this glassed-in archaeological site displaying items dating from the Joseon dynasty unearthed during excavation…

7. Seoul Metropolitan Library

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Opened in 2012, the Seoul Metropolitan Library is within the original City Hall's Renaissance-style building, constructed in 1926, that's fronted by a…

8. Seoul City Hall

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Looking like a tsunami made of glass and steel, Seoul City Hall was completely redeveloped in 2013 and now is a major architectural attraction of the city…