A viewing platform above Mukho Port, built between 2016 and 2021 as part of a project to renew the hillside neighborhood. The houses on the way up have brightly painted roofs and walls, and the platform looks straight down over the harbor.
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논골담길
Four steep lanes (Deungdaeoreum-gil and Nongol 1-, 2- and 3-gil) climb from the harbor to Mukho Lighthouse through a fishing village where people still live. The walls are covered in murals and short poems about life in the port in its busier days. There is no parking in the lanes, and they are not suitable for wheelchairs.
묵호등대
First lit in 1963, the lighthouse stands on a hill 67 m above the sea and looks down on Mukho Port. The present 24-m tower, rebuilt in 2007, has an observation deck just below the lantern, and its light can be seen up to 48 km out at sea. The plaza in front has a small exhibition on lighthouses and a monument to the 1968 film Miwodo Dasi Hanbeon, which was shot here.
도째비골 스카이밸리
A recreation area near Mukho Lighthouse with a skywalk, Sky Cycle and Giant Slide. The skywalk has a transparent glass floor overlooking the sea. The Sky Cycle is a bicycle ride along a cable above the valley and is open only to riders at least 140 cm tall. The Giant Slide descends about 27 m down a cylindrical slide.
도째비골 해랑전망대
A footbridge that runs out over the sea, with sections of glass and steel-mesh floor so you can watch the waves break beneath your feet. It stays closed in bad weather.
연필뮤지엄
Billed as Korea's first pencil museum. Exhibits show how graphite becomes a pencil, and the collection of more than 3,000 pencils, gathered by the curator in over 100 cities around the world, includes some you can pick up and try.
까막바위
A black rock just offshore, named for the crows (kkamagwi) said to have nested on it; it is also said to lie due east of Namdaemun gate in Seoul. According to local legend, a village headman of the Joseon era was reborn as an octopus to drive off Japanese pirates and still lives in a cave beneath the rock. An octopus statue on the shore marks the story.