Incheon Bus Terminal, not far from
Incheon
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City Hall, is the busiest bus station in Incheon,
South Korea
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and the main gateway for intranational buses connecting Incheon city. It is operated by Incheon Transit Corporation which was founded by the city government.
The terminal serves national routes operated by companies such as , as well as local and intercity buses.
The eponymous subway station of
Incheon Subway line 1 (
Incheon Bus Terminal Station) and a
Lotte department store are located by the terminal. The area in front of the terminal is one of the most congested in Incheon.
Arounds
Nearby are Incheon Terminal Station Line 1, Lotte Department Store, and Lotte Mart, and there is a movie theater (Lotte Cinema). There is Rodeo Street in Guwol-dong, a nearby busy street.
Photos
File:인천버스터미널 출발홈 전경.jpg, Bus Terminal Departure Platform
File:인천버스터미널 후문.jpg, Incheon Bus Terminal Entrance
File:인천터미널 롯데백화점 주차장입구.jpg, Nearby Lotte Department Parking Entrance
File:인천버스터미널 택시타는곳.jpg, Bus Terminal Front Tax Platform
File:인천버스터미널 롯데백화점 버스정류장, 구월동 로데오거리 육교 앞.jpg, Incheon Bus Terminal Bridge
File:인천버스터미널 도착정류장.jpg, Arrival Platform
File:인천로데오거리 스타벅스.jpg, Nearby Starbucks in Guwol-dong Rodeo Street
File:Incheon Bus Terminal.JPG, Bus Terminal Waiting Room & Ticket Office
History
Originally, Incheon's bus terminal was operated with separate terminals for each operator around Dongincheon Station, but on September 25, 1975, a bus terminal with 5,000 pyeong of land and 1,200 pyeong of basement was opened in the area of 614 Yonghyeon-dong, Nam-gu, near the terminus of
Gyeongin Expressway. A five-story terminal above ground was completed. At that time, Kum-A Industries built it at a cost of approximately 600 million won at the time. Afterwards, due to problems with narrow facilities and aging buildings due to expansion of development in the Incheon area, it was moved to its current location upon the opening of the
Shinsegae Department Store
Shinsegae Inc. (, ) is a South Korean department store Franchising, franchise, along with several other businesses, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm is an affiliate of Shinsegae Group, South Korea's leading retail ''chaebol'', and ...
Incheon branch on November 6, 1998. The site of the old terminal located in Yonghyeon-dong was transformed into Yonghyeon-dong Daewoo Apartments and redeveloped in 2001.
In May 2009, Incheon Transportation Corporation relocated the terminal to
Unyeon-dong,
Namdong-gu,
Incheon Metropolitan City due to overcapacity of the current bus terminal located in Gwangyo-dong, and established a plan to redevelop the current location using private capital, but this was virtually canceled.
Instead of planning to redevelop the existing site after relocating the terminal, Incheon Transportation Corporation sold the terminal to Lotte Group in September 2012 to solve financial difficulties. As a result, Shinsegae Department Store Incheon Branch closed on December 28, 2018, and was renamed Lotte Department Store Incheon Terminal Branch from January 4, 2019. During the change process,
the existing Lotte Department Store Incheon branch located in Guwol-dong, opposite, was sold and changed to Elios Department Store.
References
Bus stations in South Korea
Buildings and structures in Incheon
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