Seokmodo Island, Ganghwa

Seokmodo Island, located in Samsan-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon Metropolitan City, is a special island where you can view the beautiful scenery of the West Sea and enjoy watching the sunset over the horizon. Seokmodo Island has various attractions and activities, and it is loved as a nearby travel destination because it is close to the metropolitan area.

Seokmodo Mineral Hot Springs is the representative tourist attraction on Seokmokdo Island. You can enjoy a bath in the hot spring while appreciating the sunset over the West Sea from the open-air bath located adjacent to the beach. If you soak in the mineral hot spring water that elutes from 460 m of underground granite, the accumulated fatigue and stress will surely be relieved, right?

Seokmodo Natural Forest, being the only recreational forest in the Seoul and northwest Gyeonggi regions, offers a variety of walking and hiking trail courses of different difficulty levels, allowing visitors of all ages to walk around leisurely. Especially, the sunset that you encounter while walking along the trails gives you a breathtaking experience.

Besides, you can also feel the beauty and the scent of nature on Seokmodo Island, including Bomunsa Temple, one of Korea's three largest Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sites, where you can see beautiful sunsets; Minmeoru Beach, where you can experience both white sand and mudflats; and the Suaeda japonica Makino site, which interprets each season in different colors.