Pohang Coastal Loop — Guryongpo to Space Walk

This is the route Pohang trusts. The city's official tour buses have circled this coastal loop week after week for years — we take the same proven itinerary and slow it down for international travelers. Walk the preserved Japanese House Street of Guryongpo and hear its layered colonial-era history, taste gwamegi (half-dried saury, Pohang's winter delicacy) at the culture center, stand beside the Hand of Harmony at Homigot — the first place Korea greets the sunrise — graze through Jukdo Market, the largest traditional market on the East Sea coast, breathe at Yeongildae Beach, and finish floating above the coastline on the Space Walk. A guide who grew up on these shores tells you the stories the bus tours never had time for.