N Seoul Tower - Seoul, South Korea

Landmark by day and awesome tower of light by night. The N Seoul Tower is a must visit. We visited this place the first night we arrived in Seoul and re-visited it on our last night in Seoul. It is one of the most memorable locations we visited.

The first night, we decided to walk to N Seoul Tower from where we were staying. It didn't seem that way. It was uphill all the way though. We walked for awhile and then we saw a sign. We were going in the right direction and according to the sign, we were 1.3km away. Alright, 1.3km is not far. We can do it. 15-20 minutes later, we arrived at a second sign. It pointed to the stairs a couple of meters to the right of it. And according to this sign, we were 1.3km away. What?! How could we still be 1.3km away. Did we miss another way up? Oh well, since we were there, we decided to just climb up the stairs, I mean, how bad could it be? 

We climbed for about 10 minutes. I was all sweaty at that point. We spotted an observation deck and ventured onto it for a break. We rested and took some photos and then, we were ready to continue our climb. We stepped out of the observation deck, back onto the stairs and we saw a lady in stilletos! She was walking up effortlessly and there I was, all sweaty and out of breath in my sneakers. We had to overtake that lady and we managed to do that, but only because she stopped to wait for some other people who were walking at a much slower pace. 

Anyway, we got to the top and arrived at the cable car station. We walked a little bit further up and there was an area with tons of lovelocks. We took pictures excitedly. There are quite a few romantic spots there. We walked around and even watched a short 3-D clip inside base of the tower. 

We came back again on our last night in Seoul. We tried taking the cable car this time. The queue for the cable car was so long. We waited for about an hour before our turn. The ride took about 5 minutes. Pretty quick. We went for buffet at a restaurant in the tower. The environment was lovely. We had grilled meat, odeng, cake, tofu, and lots of ice cream. After dinner we walked around and took photos of the view and of us. We also visited the Hello Kitty souvenir shop. 

And that's my experience of the N Seoul Tower. We didn't go up. Walking around the tower is memorable enough for me. I will remember the cold night air, and how beautiful the tower and night scenery of Seoul looked.