Time of the visit: the 15th of oct.,2025

I would like to focus a little on logistics, including the routes between the individual sites and the ideal route for visitors using public transport.

There are two options if you come from Busan

1) take the kmx train from Busan station (subway stop:Busan station) to the KMX train station Ulsan,you can either take a taxi from there or the bus 383 to the Ulsan Petroglyp Museum,

2) take one of the frequent buses(every 40 min) from Busan Central Bus Station to Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal, you can either take a taxi (there is no taxi rank near the terminal but I counted at least 4 taxis passing by while waiting at the bus stop for bus 383) from there or the bus 383 to the Ulsan Petroglyp Museum.

The bus from Busan is a direct express bus with a fixed route from Busan to Tongdosa and Eonyang Bus Terminal. During weekdays, the buses are quite empty, and most of the few passengers get off at Tongdosa Station. The Tongdosa Temple is part of the Sansa UNESCO World Heritage Sites and probably the most impressive individual World Heritage Site in South Korea, with Gyeongyu as a whole probably earning the title of best WHS.

Which option is better depends a bit on where you stay in Busan. For me, both the train station and the bus station were the same distance away. In the morning, the subways towards downtown are packed with people. The situation towards the Central Bus Station (subway stop: Nopo) is much more relaxed. The same applies to both stations. The bus station is clear, well-organized, and there are no lines. Everything is very relaxing there, without any stress.

Whats more as I hadnt known for sure whether the exact departure times for the bus 383 were correct or not I opted for the Eonyang ststion..The Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal has the advantage that you can also take various other buses from there, which stop at the bus stop on the main road, from where the path branches off to the Petroglyph Museum (I met a group of Korean tourists who were walking from there, about 25 minutes, not recommended as it is a desolate and boring path).

I took the 10:10 bus (if you want to be safe, you can take the 9:35 bus; you can pay for bus tickets on the bus, even with a T-Money card. There were no lines at the ticket counter in Busan so that I just bought a ticket; I've taken the bus there three times) and arrived at Eonyang Temporary Intercity Bus Terminal at around 10:45 (official arrival time 11:00). The bus stop for bus 383 is directly across the street from the bus station. There are electronic displays showing the arrival times.Naver's timetable was correct unlike Google's one... the bus arrived at the bus stop at exactly 11.07.The return bus leaves the Petroglyph Museum at 14.50.Some koreans showed me on their mobile phone that the departure time should have been at 14.40.However,the museum staff had told me earlier that the departure time was 14.50.

I first went to Bangadue Terrace. It's about a 20-minute walk from the museum... the path is excellent, and the nature is enchanting and picturesque.

At the site there is a small guardhouse with a guard, three high-performance telescopes with high-resolution large displays and two conventional telescopes of lower quality.There was an elderly volunteer there who explained the individual drawings on a display board, such as tiger, whale, etc. I also gained a lot of background knowledge about the area, the nearby dam, the old trade route for goods to Japan, etc. To my great joy and surprise, it was a lot of fun to search for the individual animal species on the river wall with the telescope.I returned to the museum satisfied, visited it and then set off for the Cheonjeon Petroglyphs. My intention was to walk the short distance from there to the Deogok Museum, which displays the artifacts found during the dam construction, including the petroglyph of Cheonjeon-ri. I intended to take the 383 bus from there back to Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal... or a taxi. The staff at Ulsan museum told me that the 383 bus starts from there and in case needed the Deogok museum could call a taxi for me. However, at the very last moment a staff member called the Deogok museum and it turned out that it was temporarily closed due to remodeling as he called it.The path to the Cheonjeong site is a bit awkward, as it's a bit slippery in places and leads over loose rocks in places. All the paths are very well marked. However, I would advise against visiting the Cheonjeon site in the rain. Why? The walk is doable for people of average fitness, but extremely unpleasant in the rain. There are two real reasons for this: 1) The Cheonjeon site is pretty disappointing... not worth the effort in the rain, but Bangadue Terraces is... if only for the great path. 2) You have to cross a concrete bridge to get to the site. This concrete bridge is extremely low, and even when I visited, even when it wasn't raining much, the water from the river was almost at the top of the bridge. A little heavy rain, and the bridge would no longer be passable.So skip the Cheonjeon site if short of time or with rain!

As for the ideal route ....I would recommend take the bus 383 either from KMX Ulsan station or Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal and get off at the Deogok Museum,then walk to the Cheonjeon site,from there to the Bangadue terraces,and from there return to the Ulsan Petroglyp Museum .The bus 383 leaves from the museum bus stop at 14.50 first to the Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal and a few minutes later arrives at KMX Ulsan station.However,if you intend to kill two birds with one stone and visit another world heritage site the very same day (the massive Tongdosa temple,Sansa whs, official closing time 17.00,it was still open at around 20.00 when I left the temple complex,only some subtemples were closed earlier) ,then get off at Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal and take either the frequent direct bus Eonyang-Tongdosa-Busan(,every 40 min) from the Eonyang Intercity Bus Terminal or the bus nr.13 from the bus stop in front of the station,( every 20 min) .I took the bus nr.13 as I just missed the express bus....it took a few minutes longer than the express bus but I wasnt in a hurry.To my surprise, the visit by public transport worked out quite well... the only annoying thing was the uncertainty about the exact departure times