Nampo-dong, Busan's downtown area, is a great spot to enjoy sightseeing, shopping, and gourmet food.
Nampo-dong is one of the areas with the highest population density in Busan and is known as the center of Busan. Until the early 1990s, it was the city's most bustling shopping district and the administrative, economic and social center.
Generally, Nampo-dong is narrow and refers to the downtown area from BIFF Street to Gwangbok-dong, but in a broader sense, it can also refer to the metropolitan area including Shinchang-dong, Changseon-dong, Bupyeong-dong, Gwangbok-dong, Jungang-dong, and Jagalchi.
Nampo-dong is the birthplace of modern Busan, and its old town and location next to the sea make it a very suitable tourist destination. It is also home to major tourist attractions such as Busan Tower and Jagalchi Market. Nampo-dong also has a wide variety of restaurants, offering a wide range of cuisine from Korean food such as siat hotteok and tteokbokki to foreign cuisine such as Thai, Indian, and Vietnamese.
There is also a long underground shopping mall that stretches from Jagalchi Station to Nampo Station on the Busan Subway.
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Kamnamjik
Located in Nampo-dong, Kamnamjit is a reasonably priced vegetable hand-rolled rice set meal. Located on Pig's Trotter Street in Nampo-dong, Busan, Kamnamjit is a vegetable set meal where you wrap fresh vegetables with various side dishes. The restaurant is a relaxing place where you can feel like you are in the countryside... -
Blue House Cafe at the Top of the Stairs / Gamcheon Culture Village
This unique cafe is located in Gamcheon Culture Village, a major tourist destination in Busan. -
Nampo Underground Shopping Center
Hello, Nampo Underground Shopping Center in downtown Busan is located in the underground passageway between Nampo Station and Jagalchi Station on the Busan Urban Railroad. The large indoor space is 517 meters long and 25 to 34 meters wide, and has a fountain and rest area, making it a bustling shopping mall with many shoppers. -
Torso patch
Hello, in the Gukje Market, where customers are greeted with the sound of voices calling out, "Come in! We have a wide variety to choose from!", there is a stone pot rice restaurant called Dolsopppatchi, where you can mix and eat four kinds of namul - Chinamul (a vegetable from the Asteraceae family), Gijang wakame seaweed, radish namul, and olgali Chinese cabbage - with stone pot rice. Nampo-dong Gu... -
Jumunjin Memil Makguksu
A buckwheat cold noodle restaurant near Jagalchi Station on Busan Subway Line 1. Hello, speaking of noodle dishes in Busan, there is milmyeon made from wheat, but makguksu, a local dish of Gangwon-do in the northeastern part of Korea, also known as buckwheat cold noodle, is one of Busan's popular dishes. ... -
Omiya Samgyetang / Omiya Korean Beef Gui
Hello, this is Daegung Samgyetang, located near Toseong Station, the next station after Jagalchi Station on Busan Subway Line 1 in Nampo-dong, Busan. There is a restaurant with the same name, Daegung Samgyetang, in Jungang-dong, but this restaurant also operates Daegung Hanwoo, where you can eat Korean barbecue, in addition to Daegung Samgyetang, at the entrance of the restaurant. ... -
Chan Restaurant
Hello, at the small Chan Restaurant near Jagalchi Market in Busan, you can enjoy delicious Korean food at a reasonable price. When we ordered Nakji Bokkeum for two people, the side dishes that came out were water kimchi, fried anchovies, seaweed salad, and fried fish cake... -
Uribolipa
Jagalchi Market, the largest fish market in Busan, is bustling with merchants and lively fish from early in the morning. It is famous for sashimi and seafood, but there is also a restaurant that serves healthy and reasonably priced barley rice for people who work early in the morning. As Westernization of food has progressed in Korea, Korean food has... -
BIFF Square
BIFF Square, the birthplace of the Busan International Film Festival, where you can enjoy hotteok and various street food BIFF Square is a movie street built in the Nampo-dong area of Busan, and has been the site of the Busan International Film Festival, a celebration of filmmakers from around the world, since 1995. -
Dongducheon Budaejjigae
Richly flavored Budae Jjigae, available at BIFF Square in Nampo-dong, downtown Busan Hello, BIFF Square, located between Busan's Gukje Market and Jagalchi Market, is a popular spot in Nampo-dong, frequented by both locals and foreign tourists. Dongducheon Budae Jjigae, located there, is a kimchi-based stew... -
Y's Park (Gwangbok Branch, Busan)
Hello, located in the middle of Nampo-dong, downtown Busan, Y's Park is an 8-story shopping mall complex that houses B&C Bakery, Sulbin, Kyobo Bookstore, Aventree Hotel, a general store, women's fashion, and a restaurant floor. -
Jagalchi Market
Hello, if you walk along the coast of Busan Port, the second largest city in Korea, which is full of the vitality of a port city, you will come across Jagalchi Market, a huge fish market that was established after the Korean War. It is now one of the leading seafood producers in Korea, and you can enjoy fresh sashimi, seafood, and other seafood to your heart's content. -
Nampo-dong Dry Food Wholesale Market
A dried fish market that preserves the image of Busan as an old port city Located right next to Nampo Station on Busan Subway Line 1, at the eastern end of Jagalchi Market is the dried fish wholesale market (Dried Fish Market). It specializes in dried fish, which are representative of Busan, such as dried sardines, dried fish, squid, octopus, seaweed, wakame seaweed, and kelp. -
Bupyeong Yanggopchang
A popular yang gopchang specialty restaurant located in front of Bupyeong Market. Nampo-dong is a gourmet paradise with so many delicious restaurants, but how about some gopchangyaki? There's a Nampo-dong Gopchangyaki Street near Jagalchi Market, but why not...? -
Lotte Department Store/Lotte Mart Gwangbok Branch
Lotte Department Store and Lotte Mart in Nampo-dong, a paradise for shopping and gourmet in Busan Lotte Mall, located next to Yeongdo Bridge that crosses from Nampo-dong and Jagalchi Market to Yeongdo, is home to Lotte Department Store, Lotte Mart, Lotte Cinema, and Hi-Mart... -
Nampo-dong Gopchang Grill Alley – Baekgwayang Gopchang
The fragrant smell and the sweet, chewy yet tender Gopchangyaki of Nampo-dong. The people sat in a circle, whispering to each other, and the fragrant smell rose up. Undeterred by the smell and gases from the charcoal fire, they clinked their glasses together in a toast. The burning sensation in their breathless chests... -
Pongchut (Nampo branch)
Due to store renovation, we will be temporarily closed for one month in May 2025. Hello, we are a porridge specialty store located in BIFF Square, which is always crowded with tourists and Busan locals. It is located halfway between Gukje Market and Jagalchi Market, so you can easily stop by after shopping or sightseeing. -
Busan Modern History Museum
The Busan Modern History Museum, a renovated former Bank of Korea building in Busan, is scheduled to open in 2024 as a cultural facility with exhibition rooms showcasing the history and culture of the region. Admission is free. -
Tonking Samgyeopsal
Cheap! Taste! Large portions! A 24-hour yakiniku restaurant that has it all. The Nampo-dong area of Busan is a bustling area with many tourist spots where you can enjoy shopping, beauty treatments, and gourmet food in one place. However, Jagalchi on Subway Line 2 is also a popular spot. -
Healthy Curry
Takechan's curry restaurant in the International Market
