4 attractions in Wonju, including Gangwon Gamyeong Provincial Office, Guryongsa Temple (Wonju) and Wonju Bangye-ri Ginkgo Tree.
Historic sites & memorials
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On Wonil-ro in the old centre of Wonju, a two-storey gate with red pillars stands right beside the traffic. This is Pojeongnu, the main gate of Gangwon Gamyeong, the office from which a royal governor ran the whole of Gangwon Province for…
Churches & monasteries
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Follow the forest path of tall red pines up the northern valley of Chiaksan and Guryongsa appears on the slope beside the stream. Two legends overlap in its name: a pond full of dragons and a turtle-shaped rock said to have sapped the temp…
Nature
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Standing alone in the fields of Munmak-eup near Wonju, the Bangye-ri ginkgo is a single tree that looks like a small wood. Its branches spread 37.5 m east to west and 31 m north to south, so when the leaves turn gold all at once in autumn…
Mountains & peaks
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A monk once saved a pheasant from a snake. That night the snake came for the monk and promised to spare him only if a bell rang on the mountain before dawn. The bell rang three times, and when the monk went to the temple he found the pheas…