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Full Day Private Busan Highlight Tour with Licensed Guide

9 Hours Round trip from Pickup service provided in Busan. Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Private 9-hour Busan tour with licensed guide
  • 02 Customizable itinerary based on your group’s interests
  • 03 Visit top sights such as Haedong Yonggungsa and Gamcheon Culture Village
  • 04 Explore local favorites including BIFF Square, Jagalchi Market, and Gukje Market
  • 05 Enjoy scenic coastal stops like Taejongdae and Haeundae Beach
  • 06 Travel comfortably in a private air-conditioned vehicle
  • 07 Hotel pickup and drop-off in Busan included

Discover Busan your way on this full-day private highlights tour with a licensed guide and private vehicle. With around 9 hours to explore, you can enjoy a flexible itinerary that combines the city’s best-known sights with local insight, from seaside temples and scenic beaches to colorful neighborhoods, markets, and shopping districts.

Popular stops may include Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, Gamcheon Culture Village, Busan Tower, BIFF Square, Jagalchi Market, Gukje Market, Taejongdae, Haeundae Beach, and Shinsegae Centum City. Along the way, your guide can help tailor the day to your interests and recommend local Busan food for an even more memorable experience.

Discover Busan your way on this full-day private highlights tour with a licensed guide and private vehicle.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 9 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Included
Transport Included
Wheelchair access No
City Busan
Languages English, Japanese, Korean

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

This temple is considered as the most beautiful buddhist temple in Korea, which is located right next to the sea. So it make great view with sea in Korean Traditional Temple Building!Gamcheon cultural village has its own special beauty of the town, It is formed by houses built in staircase-fashion on the foothills of a coastal mountain, earning this village the nickname "Machu Picchu of Busan." Many alleys that cut through this community are vibrantly decorated with murals and sculptures created by the residents.Busan Tower is a symbol of Busan that stands proudly 69 m above sea level at a height of 120 m. The top of the tower is modeled after the baldaquin of Dabotap Pagoda in Bulguksa Temple, Gyeongju.

Loved by Busan citizens and tourists alike, the tower offers a stunning night view and plenty to see, such as the Statue of the Great Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the Bell of the Citizens, a flower clock and a bust of the Busan-based independent activist, Baeksan An Hee-je.Having been remade into a cultural tourist attraction promoting the advancement of Korea’s film industry, BIFF Square has contributed to Busan’s newfound status as an international cultural tourist city. The 428 meter-long street stretching from the Buyeong Theater in Nampo-dong to the overpass in Chungmu-dong was divided into “Star Street” and “Festival Street,” and on the eve of the festival each year the “BIFF Square Ground Opening” is held on the street. During the ceremony, events such as the hand printing of famous movie celebrities and Nunggot Jeomdeung (snow-flower lighting) take place. A district such as BIFF Square, crowded with first-run theaters in a city is rare not only in Asia but Europe as well, and for this reason it holds great potential. In recent years, the square has grown into a more complex area, featuring not only movie theaters but also shops and leisure facilities, attracting growing numbers of young visitors and tourists.Jagalchi Market, located on the shoreside road in Busan's Jung-gu, is Korea's largest seafood market, selling both live and dried fish. After the Korean War, the market solidified itself as a fish market. Most of the people who sell fish are women, so the vendors here are called Jagalchi Ajumma, "ajumma" meaning middle-aged or married woman in Korean.

This market represents Busan and is famous throughout the country. Visitors can eat fresh raw fish right at the market. Even nowadays visitors can see women selling mackerel, sea squirts (ascidians) and whale meat on wooden boxes along the road outside of the market and along the shore.Following the Korean War, refugees who fled to Busan set up stalls in order to make a living, and this was the beginning of the Gukje Market (gukje meaning "international" in Korean). The Gukje Market is one of Korea’s largest markets; each alleyway is crowded with stalls, and it connects to Bupyeong Market, Kkangtong Market, and other smaller markets. The market stocks such a wide variety of goods, that you can find almost everything you need right here.Designated as a Busan monument, along with Oryukdo Island, Taejongdae represents Busan, and is especially famous for its rock beach. Featuring its highest peak at 250 meters, there are forests of pine trees and 200 other varieties of trees. Taejongdae was named after the 29th king of the Silla Kingdom (57 BC-AD 935), King Taejong Mu-Yeol (604-661). King Taejong traveled to many places but this was the place he enjoyed shooting arrows the most.

Under the lighthouse of this resort is a rock called Sinseon Rock, named after the myth that gods and goddesses came down here to relax. At this rock is a figure called Mangbuseok, named after the story of a woman who waited for her husband who had been taken to Japan. Taejongdae is also famous for the ritual of praying for rain, performed when there are droughts, and rain on the 10th day of the fifth lunar month is called the "Taejong Rain." On days with clear skies you can see Japan’s Tsushima Island from the observatory.Haeundae Beach is the most famous beach in Busan. The white sand beach is roughly 1.5 k m long, over a 30-50 m wide area, creating a beautiful coastline before a shallow bay, making Haeundae Beach perfect for swimming.

People flock to Haeundae Beach every summer. All kinds of accommodations from luxury hotels to private guesthouses have developed in the area around the beach, making this the perfect summer vacation spot. Haeundae Beach is also famous for various cultural events and festivals held throughout the year. Other facilities in the area include Dongbaek Island, Busan Aquarium, a yachting dock, BEXCO, driving courses and more.The Shinsegae Centum City Department Store is registered in the Guinness World Records as the largest shopping complex in the world. The department store has a countless number of items all under one roof. Visitors can also enjoy numerous entertainment options in the complex. Shinsegae, which opened the first department store in Korea, reflects decades of retail experience in this flagship location. Some of the various entertainment facilities available include a spa and an ice rink.

Globally renowned experts such as Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin and an American architecture and design firm Callison completed Centum City under the concept of a “golden sea”. The department store has emerged as a defining landmark in Busan.

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • English Speaking Tour Guide
  • Private transportation
  • Hotel pickup and dropoff
  • Cost for vehicle : parking, toll fee, fuel, etc

What's Not Included

  • Entrance fee -pay at the site
  • Meals

Know before you go

  • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • INFANT SEATS AVAILABLE
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • We pick up any hotels in Busan or any airbnb place If it is from Airport or out of Busan, there's extra Please give us exact contact number on for easy communication!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Pickup service provided in Busan.
Tour start
Pickup service provided in Busan.
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 9 hours finish where they began, in Pickup service provided in Busan..

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