The One Million Rose Garden To See Near Seoul
Last Updated on April 5, 2025
When the weather warms up in Korea, it’s the perfect time to explore the country’s most beautiful rose gardens. While there are several great rose-viewing spots across the country, one truly stands out: the Million Rose Garden in Bucheon (백만송이장미원). Located at the base of Dodang Mountain, this expansive garden bursts with roses in every color and is officially the largest rose garden in Korea.
If you’re searching for summer flower spots in Korea, add this one to your must-visit 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 Million Rose Garden was created by the Bucheon City Government in 1995 to improve and beautify the area. It quickly grew in popularity, expanding to over 150,000 rose plants by 1998. With just 7 to 10 blooms per plant, the garden easily boasts over one million roses in bloom.
To celebrate, the city hosts the annual Bucheon Rose Festival, a vibrant event that attracts flower lovers, photographers, and tourists every year.
When The Flowers Bloom
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.
For the best photos, aim to visit in the early morning or golden hour in the evening when lighting is soft. Midday visits can be hot and bright, but the views are stunning no matter the time.
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.
Other Top Rose Gardens in Korea
If you’re exploring beyond Bucheon, other popular rose gardens in Korea include:
- Rose Park, Igok-dong (Daegu)
- Junghwa Sports Park, Jungnang-gu (Seoul)
- Everland Rose Garden (Yongin)
- Gokseong Rose Park (Jeollanam-do)
- Ulsan Grand Park Rose Garden
That said, if you’re near Seoul, the Million Rose Garden in Bucheon is one of the best places to see roses in full bloom.
Want to see roses in Korea this summer? Don’t miss Bucheon’s Million Rose Garden, a vibrant, photo-friendly, and family-friendly destination just outside Seoul.
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