Seoul Subway Line 7 Guide: 9 Stops Worth Getting Off

Line 7 is the commuter’s line. It starts below the granite ridges of Suraksan on Seoul’s north-eastern edge, runs south through apartment towns most visitors never see, crosses the Han River out in the open, cuts under Gangnam, and then turns west through the old factory districts of Guro and Geumcheon before leaving Seoul for Bucheon and Incheon. Of Seoul’s lines, only Lines 2 and 5 carry more people.

That makes it a poor line for palaces and a good one for everything else: a mountain that starts 72 m from the exit, a railway that became a park, a free zoo, an ₩8,000 bowl of soup in Gangnam, an old Air Force parade ground and a street of Yanbian lamb skewers.

Where does Line 7 go?

From Uijeongbu to Incheon, in a long reversed S through eastern and southern Seoul. Seoul city counts 46.9 km and 42 stations for the Jangam–Onsu section, with 8-car trains and about 853,000 riders a day (January 2025). The line opened in stages from 1996 and reached Onsu in full on August 1, 2000. Nine stations through Bucheon to Bupyeong-gu Office followed in October 2012, and two more, Sangok and Seongnam, opened on May 22, 2021. Seongnam (석남) is a station in Incheon; it has nothing to do with the city of Seongnam south of Seoul.

🚇 Line 7 at a glance (Seoul city, Seoul Metro; as of October 2026)

Item	Line 7
Route	Jangam (Uijeongbu) – Seongnam (Incheon)
Stations	53, numbered 709 (Jangam) to 761 (Seongnam)
Seoul Metro section	Jangam–Onsu: 46.9 km, 42 stations, about 87 minutes
West of Onsu	11 stations through Bucheon and Incheon, run by Incheon Transit Corporation
Frequency	Every 2.5 min at the morning peak, every 6 min otherwise (Jangam–Onsu)
Riders	About 853,000 a day (January 2025)
Main transfers	Dobongsan (1), Nowon (4), Taereung-ipgu (6), Sangbong (Gyeongui-Jungang, Gyeongchun), Gunja (5), Konkuk Univ. (2), Gangnam-gu Office (Suin-Bundang), Nonhyeon (Sinbundang), Express Bus Terminal (3, 9), Isu (4), Boramae (Sillim), Daerim (2), Gasan Digital Complex (1), Onsu (1), Bucheon Stadium (Seohae), Bupyeong-gu Office (Incheon 1), Seongnam (Incheon 2)
Recent changes	Jangam moved to a temporary platform (October 2026); Ttukseom Resort renamed Jayang (2024)

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Which Line 7 stations are worth getting off at?

Nine in Seoul, from the mountain in the north-east to the outlets in the south-west. All nine restaurants come from our neighbourhood guides.

📍 9 Line 7 stations worth a stop, in line order (October 2026)

Station (No.)	Exit	Why get off	Local eat nearby	Transfer
Suraksan (711)	1	Suraksan’s granite ridges and Train Rock	Suraksan Halmaejip, pajeon	—
Junggye (714)	3	Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, the Eunhaengsageori hagwon district	Yetchon Naengmyeon	—
Gongneung (716)	2	Gyeongchun Line Forest, Noodle Street	Somunnan Myeolchi Guksu	—
Children’s Grand Park (726)	1	Free park and zoo on a former royal tomb	Jeongmyeon, Bib Gourmand noodles	—
Nonhyeon (732)	1, 2	Furniture Street, Gangnam’s cheap food alley	Jindojip, sundae-guk	Sinbundang
Naebang (735)	7	Saigil workshops, Bangbae Cafe Street	Jangsuwon, bulgogi	—
Boramae (742)	2	Boramae Park and its Air Park	Seoil Sundaeguk	Sillim
Daerim (744)	12	Yanbian food street, Daerim Central Market	New Yanbian Wang Kkochi	Line 2
Gasan Digital Complex (746)	6	Mario Outlet, Hyundai Outlet Gasan	Chuncheonok, bossam	Line 1

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What is there to do at each Line 7 stop?

Suraksan (711)

Suraksan is the reason to ride Line 7 to its northern end. VisitSeoul puts the mountain 72 m from Exit 1 and gives its height as 638 m; the massif spreads across Nowon-gu, Uijeongbu and Namyangju and is open all day, every day. It is low but almost entirely granite ridge, so the route past Train Rock, with a 30 m rope up the slab, needs boots and gloves. Our guide to the mountains locals hike rates it medium-hard, 1.5 to 2.5 hours, with a bypass for anyone who doesn’t like heights.

Eat: Suraksan Halmaejip (109 Dongil-ro 242-gil) is up the food alley that climbs from Exit 3 toward Mannam Plaza, the trailhead meeting point. Since 2002 it has served seafood pajeon, bossam, kalguksu and black-pork 짜글이 jjageuli, a thick, spicy stew, with makgeolli, at up to 100 seats for hiking clubs. It opens around 10:00. More in our Nowon and Sanggye food guide.

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Junggye (714)

Three stops south, just past Nowon (the Line 4 transfer), Junggye is the stop for Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Art’s northern branch, set in Deungnamu Park about five minutes from Exit 3. The permanent galleries are free; only special exhibitions charge. It’s open Tuesday to Thursday 10:00–20:00, Friday until 21:00 and shorter hours at weekends, and closed on Mondays and January 1. Beyond it lies Junggye-dong’s Eunhaengsageori, third in hagwon (cram school) density among Seoul’s 426 neighbourhoods in a 2023 BC Card study. It is about 1.4 km away; bus 1135 runs there from Junggye Station. Our hagwon districts guide explains what to see there at 10 p.m.

Eat: Yetchon Naengmyeon, by Exit 4, hides in the basement arcade of Junggye Green Apartment’s B block, behind a barbershop sign. Order mul-naengmyeon in Korean-beef bone broth with slushy ice, or the hand-made meat dumplings. It’s closed on Mondays and closes early in winter.

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Gongneung (716)

Seoul city sends visitors to Exit 2 for the lanes along the Gyeongchun Line Forest, a park on the track of the old railway to Chuncheon, which stopped running here in 2010. In June 2026 Nowon-gu opened the last link to Kwangwoon University Station, and the path now runs 6.8 km from Wolgye-dong through Gongneung-dong to Hwarangdae, Asia Economy reported. The Gongneung stretch is the liveliest: side-street cafés, a coffee festival on the tracks every June, and the Gongneung-dong Noodle Street, designated by the district in 2012 around noodle shops that once fed brickyard night shifts. The path’s northern end, Hwarangdae Railroad Park, is in our Line 6 guide; Taereung-ipgu, the next Line 7 stop, is the transfer.

Eat: Somunnan Myeolchi Guksu (81 Dongil-ro 173ga-gil) is the shop people call the original on Noodle Street. Anchovy noodle soup was ₩6,000 and spicy mixed noodles ₩7,000 in August 2026 listings, with free broth refills; add a roll of gimbap like the regulars. See our Gongneung and Nowon guide.

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Children’s Grand Park (726)

The main gate is about 100 m from Exit 1, according to VisitSeoul. The park is free, open 05:00–22:00 every day, and the zoo and botanical garden inside are free too (10:00–17:00); you pay only for rides and parking. The ground has a strange history. It was the tomb of Empress Sunmyeong, who died in 1904, then a golf course from 1929, and opened as a park on Children’s Day, May 5, 1973. The tomb was moved, but some of its carved stones stayed. Our Neung-dong and Gunja guide shows where to find them, and Seoul with kids lists other free parks. Gunja, one stop north, is the Line 5 transfer.

Eat: Jeongmyeon, on the park side of the neighbourhood, is a Bib Gourmand in the 2026 Michelin Guide. The owner-chef works alone at a seven-seat counter and serves two bowls, white 백면 baengmyeon and spicy red 홍면 hongmyeon, in a broth of seafood, pork and chicken. The guide’s listing gives 11:30–15:00 daily; come at opening.

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Nonhyeon (732)

After the river and Cheongdam, Line 7 runs under Hakdong-ro, and at Nonhyeon you’re at one end of the Nonhyeon Furniture Street, about 850 m of showrooms along Hakdong-ro to Hak-dong Station. It began in 1974–75, when furniture makers moved here from Insa-dong as Gangnam was built. Seoul Metro lists Exit 1 for the furniture street and Exit 2 for the Nonhyeon-dong food street and Yeongdong Market. One block behind Gangnam-daero, a few minutes from Exit 2, is a food alley of gukbap, gopchang and jokbal houses that serve office workers, not tourists. Yeongdong Traditional Market, born in a 1973 shopping apartment, is in the same lanes. Nonhyeon is also a Sinbundang Line transfer.

Eat: Jindojip (43 Hakdong-ro 4-gil) is the cheapest table in our Nonhyeon and Hak-dong guide: sundae-guk ₩8,000, beef head-meat gukbap ₩10,000, under an old sign, with plenty of daytime drinkers.

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Naebang (735)

One stop past Express Bus Terminal (covered in our Line 3 guide), Naebang is the stop for Bangbae-dong. From Exit 7, Seoul city’s directions give a 5–10 minute walk toward Hamjibak Intersection for Saigil, Bangbae-ro 42-gil, a lane of small workshops, galleries and bakeries with a market on the second Saturday of the month. About 350 m further west is Bangbae Cafe Street (Bangbaejungang-ro; Seocho-gu’s directions start from Isu Station Exit 1, 700 m), Seoul’s first cafe street, which began with a single café in 1978. Little of that era is left; its old restaurants are the reason to go. The next stop, Isu, is the Line 4 transfer, and it has two names; see our station name stories.

Eat: Jangsuwon (153 Bangbaejungang-ro) began as Myeongdong Jangsu Galbi in 1975 before moving to Bangbae-dong. Order the old-school 불고기 bulgogi, thin beef simmered at the table in a shallow broth with glass noodles, and a mild Pyongyang-style naengmyeon. Open daily 10:30–21:30. More in our Bangbae-dong guide.

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Boramae (742)

The stop most people miss. Boramae Park is the old Air Force Academy, which moved to Cheongju in 1985; the park opened on May 5, 1986. Its Air Park displays eight aircraft donated by the Air Force, from fighters to a transport and a helicopter, close enough to walk around. Seoul city gives Exit 2 and about 10 minutes to the main gate. Boramae is also a stop on the Sillim light rail line. On the way here you pass Sangdo, where a smart farm grows salad greens on B1; see Seoul’s strangest stations and our Heukseok and Sangdo guide.

Eat: Seoil Sundaeguk, about five minutes from Exit 2, is the neighbourhood’s best-known restaurant, serving for more than 30 years by bloggers’ accounts. The broth is clean, and the sundae is stuffed with dried radish greens instead of glass noodles. A bowl was ₩11,000 in August 2026; open 07:10–23:00, with a lunch queue. See our Boramae and Sindaebang guide.

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Daerim (744)

Come up Exit 12 and the signs switch to simplified Chinese: Dorim-ro 38-gil is a street of lamb skewers, malatang and the cooking of Yanbian, the Korean-Chinese region of north-east China. Daerim Central Market, right outside Exit 12 according to Seoul city and Seoul Metro, is a city-designated culture and tourism market that calls itself “China Town in Seoul” and has no tteokbokki stall. Two people eat well for ₩30,000–40,000. Daerim is a Line 2 transfer. For how this street differs from the lamb-skewer alley at Konkuk Univ., see our Konkuk guide.

Eat: New Yanbian Wang Kkochi (main branch, 8 Digital-ro 53-gil) is a second-generation shop open 24 hours. Order the 왕꼬치 wang kkochi, Yanbian-style king skewers, ₩4,600 each in our Daerim Yanbian food guide.

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Gasan Digital Complex (746)

Gasan was part of the Guro Industrial Complex (our Guro and Sindorim guide tells that story), and outlets opened here to sell surplus stock. Two remain in 2026: Mario Outlet, about 200 m from Exit 6 in our guide, and Hyundai Outlet Gasan. W Mall closed in 2023 and Lotte Factory Outlet in September 2025. Mario is open 10:30–21:00 (21:30 Friday to Sunday) and has tax-refund desks for foreign customers; see our Gasan outlet guide. Line 1 stops here too.

Eat: Chuncheonok (19 Digital-ro 12-gil) opened in 1980, long before the outlets, and is a repeat Blue Ribbon pick. Office workers come for the bossam sets, buckwheat makguksu and gukbap.

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Past the city line: Uijeongbu, Gwangmyeong, Bucheon and Incheon

North: Dobongsan, the Line 1 transfer and a national-park trailhead (see our Chang-dong and Dobongsan guide), is the last Seoul stop. Jangam, one stop on, is in Uijeongbu, inside the train depot; our Uijeongbu guide covers budae-jjigae street. The extensions north will serve Yangju and later Pocheon.

South-west: after Gasan, Cheolsan and Gwangmyeong Sageori are in Gwangmyeong, still on Seoul Metro’s section. Gwangmyeong Sageori is the stop for the city’s traditional market of about 400 shops, and Cheolsan Exit 2 for the bus to the Gwangmyeong Cave; see our Gwangmyeong guide.

West: past Onsu, the line crosses Bucheon, where Bucheon City Hall serves the Jung-dong centre and Samsan Gymnasium Exit 5 is a minute from the Korea Manhwa Museum. In Incheon, Bupyeong-gu Office connects to Incheon Line 1 for Bupyeong, and Seongnam, the terminus, to Incheon Line 2; Cheongna, where the line is heading, is in our Seohae-gu guide.

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How do you ride Line 7 without getting lost?

Read the destination on the train, not just the line colour. Line 7 is one line with several end points, and two of them stop short of where many people want to go.

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One-day route along Line 7

North to south-west, from a morning on the mountain to lamb skewers at night. Avoid Mondays: the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art and Yetchon Naengmyeon are closed.

• 08:30 — Suraksan, Exit 1. Two hours on the lower trails, then pajeon and makgeolli at Suraksan Halmaejip.
• 12:00 — Junggye, Exit 3. An hour at the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art.
• 13:30 — Gongneung, Exit 2. Anchovy noodles, then a walk along the Gyeongchun Line Forest.
• 15:30 — Children's Grand Park, Exit 1. The zoo closes at 17:00.
• 17:30 — Jayang, Exits 2–3. Evening light at Ttukseom Hangang Park, then cross the river by train.
• 19:30 — Daerim, Exit 12. Lamb skewers and guobaorou on the Yanbian food street.