Bulguksa Temple

Korea's largest seafood market on the waterfront, where you choose fish downstairs and have it prepared upstairs.

A covered market of food stalls serving bindaetteok mung bean pancakes, raw beef tartare and knife-cut noodles at shared counters.

A hillside of brightly painted houses stacked in terraces above the port, converted into galleries, cafés and small museums.

A Buddhist temple built on coastal rocks north-east of the city, unusual for sitting at the sea rather than in the mountains.

Gyeongju was the capital of the Silla kingdom for nearly a millennium, and the evidence is spread across the modern town: grass-covered royal tombs in public parks, an eighth-century observatory, and temple complexes in the surrounding hills. Bulguksa temple and the Seokguram grotto above it are the major UNESCO sites. The town is flat and easy by bicycle.

A park of large grass-covered Silla royal burial mounds, one of which is opened to show the burial chamber and grave goods.