For our upcoming trip to Korea, we will be staying in an apartment that is a 5 minutes walk from the Sinseol-Dong Subway Station.
Sinseol-Dong is a station that is connected to both the Lines 1 and Lines 2 of the Seoul Subway network. From the map below, you can see that the stations on Line 1 are in navy blue while the stations on Line 2 are in green.
So one of the ways we can travel down to Sinseol-Dong is via the AREX (Airport Railroad Express).
One of the most important websites you must definitely bookmark if you are taking the AREX is the official AREX website at http://english.arex.or.kr/jsp/eng/main.jsp
The website will provide you useful information like the Map of the AREX Line, the timetable of the train schedules, the fare you need to pay and also allows you to book tickets online!
To get to Sinseol-Dong Subway from the Incheon Airport, one would need to board the train at A10 Incheon International Airport Station, alight at Seoul Main Station to transfer to Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway and then travel about 7 stations to alight at the Sinseol-Dong Subway Station.
The AREX fare to travel from Incheon Airport to Seoul Station will cost 3,950 KWR and the journey will take about 53 minutes.
Also available at the website is the arrival times of the AREX trains at different times of the day. We would be arriving around 8 am in the morning at the airport, so I have captured the timings of the AREX trains around that timeslot.
As you can see, there is an all-stops train at 08:03 am, an express one at 8:10 am, all-stops trains at 08:17am, 08:27 am and so on. The express train heads straight for Seoul Station without stopping at the other 8 stations, and shaves about 10 minutes off the entire journey as a result.
You can find the AREX train timings at this page http://english.arex.or.kr/jsp/eng/information/use_information.jsp
Next, let’s check out how much time is needed to travel from Seoul Station to the Sinseol-Dong Subway Station.
You can click on the link below which will bring you to the page that contains the answer!
http://www.smrt.co.kr/program/cyberStation/main2.jsp?lang=e&sname2=Seoul+Station&stcd2=0150&sname3=Sinseol-dong&stcd3=0156&x=141&y=20
From the estimates given, It will take about 15 minutes and if you get the T-Money TransitCard that is widely used in Korea, the fare would be 1,050 KWR.
So adding the fare for the AREX train (3,950 KWR) + the are for the Subway (1050 KWR), that will cost a total of 5,000 KWR.
The total time to travel would be 53 minutes + 13 minutes = 66 minutes or slightly more than an hour.
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