Urbanwood Guesthouse

Top choice in Seoul


Creatively decorated in bright colours and modern furnishings, this cosy guesthouse feels more like a cool arty apartment. Martin, the convivial English-speaking host, knows the area well and will whisk you up a mean coffee on the professional barista machine in the well-appointed kitchen.

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Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Seoul attractions

1. Gyeongui Line Book Street

0.14 MILES

This extension of the Gyeongui Line Forest Park is a book-themed pathway of bookshops housed in train-carriage-like containers. The street commemorates…

2. Modern Design Museum

0.23 MILES

The items displayed on the two floors of this small museum trace the history of modern design in Korea from the 1880s to contemporary times. Not much is…

3. Wau Park

0.24 MILES

On this hillside park, there are walking trails lined with wildflowers, as well as basketball and badminton courts and other fitness facilities, all well…

4. Gyeongui Line Forest Park

0.25 MILES

This 6.3km park, named for the former Gyeongui Line (on which it was built), is a narrow, long green space that runs along the discarded railroad tracks…

5. KT&G SangsangMadang

0.46 MILES

Funded by Korea’s top tobacco company, this visually striking building is home to an art-house cinema, a concert space (hosting top indie bands) and…

6. War & Women's Human Rights Museum

0.54 MILES

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7. Ewha Womans University Museum

1.03 MILES

To the left of the university entrance, the exhibits spread over three floors here conjure up the extinct world of the yangban (aristocratic) elite with…

8. Ewha Womans University

1.06 MILES

Come to this venerable university, founded in 1886 by American Methodist missionary Mary Scranton, to view Dominique Perrault’s stunning main entrance…