Busan, neighborhood by neighborhood

Jay · lives in Korea · How I choose places

No photos, no star ratings — just what I'd tell a friend. In Busan, these are the 313 places on my own map, across 7 neighborhoods: 27 I've been to, 286 I haven't made it to yet.

Open the guide — Seomyeon · Jeonpo is free
Busan

Haeundae

해운대 · 105 places

where a first trip to Busan usually stays, and it earns it

Gwangalli

광안리 · 71 places

Busan after dark, with the bridge out front

Seomyeon · Jeonpo

서면·전포 · 51 places

the gukbap alley, and the coffee lanes beside it

Nampo · Jungang

남포·중앙 · 50 places

the old port: the fish market and the night stalls

Yeongdo

영도 · 17 places

the cliff village across the harbor

Dongnae

동래 · 14 places

a hot-spring quarter, and coffee for the obsessed

Gijang

기장 · 5 places

the temple on the sea rocks, up the coast

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