Nodeul Island

노들섬

A river island with a bookshop and a live house

Hours

Outdoor areas open all day; venues vary

Tickets

Free to enter

Address

445 Yangnyeong-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

A small island sitting right in the middle of Hangang Bridge. It used to be a sandbar nobody visited; now a bookshop, a live music hall and a big lawn make it feel like a neighbourhood park on the water. Pick a book, sit on the grass, and the traffic on the bridge sounds like distant surf. After sunset the lights of the bridge and the far bank smear across the river.