Geoje Monorail, South Korea

Ridding the monorail from POW camp up to the top of the mountain “Gyerong-san”, worth the ride!

This monorail (거제 모노레일) opened in 2018, it’s a pretty new tourist attraction in Geoje Island. The monorail takes you to the top of one of the famous mountains in Geoje “Gyerong-san”, this mountain is a very steep, about 560-meter mountain slope!

You can do both the POW (거제도 포로수용소유적공원) and monorail on the same day but we weren’t able to book a ticket on our first visit because the monorail tickets sold out.

*At this point, we are at a monorail station on the top of Gyeongran Mountain.

We tried to walk-in for a monorail ticket one more time, and it was sold out again!

So I guess, during the summertime in Geoje -it’s hard to get the monorail ticket for the sunset ride, book online ahead of your visit!

Luckily, we have a Korean friend “BC” who bought the monorail ticket online for us, this way we can select the date and time for the ride!  Ticket online is available at http://www.pow.or.kr/_main/main.html

*The online ticket is available to purchase with a local credit card only, and the website is only in the Korean language (the year 2020)

<—Left: POW Camp  Right: Monorail —>

We had to stop to get the real tickets at the ticket office before ridding monorail. I would recommend you to come a little early before your riding time.

Walk to the monorail station and hand your ticket at the monorail station attendant, then wait for your turn to ride.

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The monorail cab holds 5-6 people per ride, I took a drink with me – no problem! But pets are not allowed!

Once you get inside the monorail, buckle up!

It’s a very-very slow ride up, it’s less than 2 km but it took more than 25 mins to ride to the peak!

I had just a little motion sickness…but I was fine once I got out!

Up to the top of the Gyerong-san mountain, it’s a very nice view – we picked the good day in August!

It’s a nice walk to the viewpoint where we can see the whole island or port view!

Some people would buy only a one-way ticket for a monorail ride, then they hike up or down instead of riding.

Riding down the monorail is much more fun (for us), it’s faster and a little thrilling 🙂

The round trip ride is about 3.6km, and our tickets are about $10 (12,000won) per person for a round trip ride (Aug 2020). 

My friend told me that the last monorail to ride back down is about 9 pm, but it depends on the weather as well.

Don’t forget to read–> Prisoner Of War (POW)

Read more for our trip in Geoje: https://www.somethingjam.com/south-korea/geoje-island-south-korea