Daereungwon Tomb Complex

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.

An eighth-century Silla temple on stone terraces, with two celebrated stone pagodas in its main courtyard.