Toilet Museum inside Ilsan Lark Park~ 일산 호수공원 내에 화장실 전문 전시관

This is a separate post on the Toilet Museum in Ilsan Lake Park. The Toilet Museum or also known as Toilet Culture Exhibition Centre is small scale but interesting. A good 15 mins browsing is enough to let you understand the history, culture and evolution on toilets in the world including Korea's. The description is available in dual language~ Korean and English. Really a hidden gem inside the public park and entry is free! 

How I walk from Daehwa Station to Kintex, and to Ilsan Lake Park

Since I have no schedule today, I decided to walk to Kintex (Korea largest exhibition centre) and Ilsan Lake Park (one of the Asia largest man-made lake park). As our hotel is nearby Daehwa station, I begin from the walk from Daehwa station Exit 2, cross the street via traffic light~ there is a stone signage indicate that this beautiful walk way with apartment blocks and trees on both side will lead u to Kintex in 5 mins walk (about 300m). As it is an alley between apartment blocks, along the way I could see residents exercising or hang-around at the recreation area.

I briefly look around both Kintex 1 and Kintex 2 including make a pit stop at the tourism desk to obtain map of Ilsan lake park and Goyang-si. However the short visit took nearly an hour as the exhibition is really huge! After get my coffee of the day~ iced caffe latte from Twosome Place at Kintex 2, I then begin my walk to Ilsan Lake Park from Kintex 2 main gate (Gate 2) where there's a huge luggage as landmark. Walk out thru the side way of the gate, continue the journey by walk thru a pedestrian tunnel, I found a beautiful flower wall painting but kind of spooky feel inside the tunnel as it has spider web here and there (as if the tunnel is not being used for sometimes...)

After walk out from the tunnel, continue to head straight for 8 mins until reach a overhead bridge where Hyundai Department Store is located opposite the main road. Use the overhead bridge crossover the main road to Hyundai Department Store. And continue to head straight on left hand side direction to walk pass Hyundai Dept Store.  

After walk pass Hyundai Department Store until the end of the building corner, turn right along the corner and continue walk straight. Walk pass Homeplus and Lotte Vic Mart and cross a main road again (via traffic light). About 10 mins walking time including a quick browse and toilet break at Lotte Vic Mart, I reach the lakeside park entrance which is located at the overhead bridge entrance.

Walk up the stairs to the overhead bridge and the park entrance is there right at the end of the bridge. This overhead bridge is a connecting bridge for Lake Park Apartment residents to go over to lakeside park. Further walk down a little also will lead to another bigger entrance of Lake Park in case miss out this overhead bridge. 

This is also the entrance of Ilsan Lake Park where the musical fountain is. If you wish to know more about the Ilsan Lake Park, do check out the upcoming post~ 

Ilsan 3 days 2 nights~ Daehwa Station Hwasumok Barbeque, Tokuri Yakitori & Coffeebanhada | 일산 2박 3일 대화역 화수목고깃집~ 도쿠리꼬치구이~ 커피에반하다 |

From Cheongju, we go to Seoul by Express bus to Central City Terminal, which about 2 hours journey. This Central City Terminal has department stores, movie theaters, synthesized terminals, and even hotels all within the building. Feels like I am in the airport, not a bus terminal. It is connected with the Seoul Express Bus Terminal, and also Subway Line 3 - where we took subway from here to our next destination in Seoul ~ Ilsan, Goyang-si. 

That night, we meet up with a friend who lives nearby. We haven't meet each other since last met in Seoul in 2014. We have dinner at this Barbeque restaurant next to Daehwa Station Exit.2~ Hwasumok 화수목. Hwa-su-mok means Fire. Water and Wood in Korea. Three of us have the assorted meat course (big). About 800g of 토시살 Beef hanger steak, 갈비 Ribs, 갈매기살 Seagull meat (a cut between pork rib and pork belly and 삼겹살 pork belly. It is really delicious. Thanks to him we have very good Korean barbeque meal at our first visit to Ilsan, Goyang.

After dinner, we go for round two at a Izakaya named Tokuri 도쿠리 nearby. The gentlemen continue the talks with drinks with sake and some assorted chicken skewers + a oden-guk. Besides the chicken skewers, I quite like the bacon enoki mushroom roll and grilled garlic. Since I don't drink, I get myself iced caffe latte at a nearby franchise cafe - Coffeebanhada 커피에 반하다 before we starts round two. Here I started to discover that low cost coffee chain has become a new trend in Korea nowadays. I will share more later of my few visits of other low cost coffee chain in other post later.