The One Million Rose Garden To See Near Seoul
When it warms up in Korea, it’s time to find the roses. There are some beautiful rose gardens throughout Korea but one stands above the rest. The Million Rose Garden in Bucheon (백만송이장미원) has roses to see in various colors blanketing the foot of Dodang Mountain. It’s actually the largest rose garden in Korea. Want to see summer flowers in Korea? Add this spot to your list.
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How To Get There
Address: Dodang Garden, 99 Seonggok-ro 63 beon-gil, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do (경기 부천시 성곡로63번길 99 도당공원)
By Public Transportation: Head to Chunui Subway Station and go out of exit 7. Outside, take bus 661 and get off at the Million Rose Garden stop.
Basic Info
Admission: FREE
Blooming period: Roses bloom from mid-May into June with the peak being early June.
Festival period: Usually around the first week of June.
What To Know
The Bucheon City Government planted the garden of roses in 1995 to beautify an area that had become a bit crime ridden hoping to create more community. It worked and the garden was expanded to 150,000 roses in 1998. If just seven to ten roses bloom on each plant, there are more than one million roses that bloom in the garden and so it got the name. The city hosts the annual Bucheon Rose Festival to celebrate the beauty of the garden each year.
What To See
We visited in June after it it had rained quite a bit so some of the roses were on their last legs, but that also meant we got to enjoy the garden practically on our own. To get the best photos, you’d want to visit early in the morning or in the evening for the best lighting. We visited in the heat of the day so it was bright but we still enjoyed our time there.
You can walk along the paths and into the flowers. As they are on the side of a mountain, there is some uphill walking you’ll have to do. If you’ve got kids with you, there’s also a playground up in shade behind the small pavilion. As the garden is very sunny during the day and uncovered for the most part, you’ll want to walk up into the shaded areas along the forested part of the mountain to take a seat and cool off. It’s beautiful from every vantage point of course though, so sit back, relax, and just enjoy the views.
Walk through a rose covered tunnel and find the other various photo zones as there always are in Korea though here, they really don’t detract from the beauty of the roses themselves, so don’t worry. The park is quite vast so if you enter from one side, make sure you really walk across to the other side and up to see the park from every angle and every kind of rose that is featured.
Roses have become an especially popular flower over the years in Korea so if you visit during the festival period, you’ll find a ton of people that also want to enjoy the flowers, the colors, the blooms, and everything that surrounds them. That said, everyone loves getting photos just as much as the next person in Korea so you can always get good shots and people don’t mind stepping aside to let you get one. Whether you want to sit among them or just enjoy the views, you can do that here.
There are some beautiful places to see roses around Korea including the Rose Park in Igok-dong, Daegu, Junghwa Sports Park in Jungnang-gu, Seoul, Everland, Gokseong, and Ulsan, but this is one of the best rose gardens to visit if you’re in Seoul and looking for a place to head.
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