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Sokcho Tourist & Fishery Market

Sokcho Tourist & Fishery Market

속초 관광수산시장 · Gangwon · Traditional markets

Sokcho Tourist Fish Market, an essential tourist attraction in Sokcho, offers all sorts of things. The market includes a large building with a basement and two floors above ground and specialized alley stores. The building consists of shops for clothes, daily necessities, and other general products; the Nonghyup Hanaro Mart; and the Raw Fish Center, which sells fresh live fish and seafood at a reasonable price. The alley market is divided into several alleyways specialized in each product such as a vegetable & fruit alley, a chili pepper alley, a blood sausage alley, a salted seafood market alley, a chicken alley, and so on. Especially, fresh agricultural and fish products, and dried seafood products will draw visitors’ attention. The chicken alley is popular among tourists with various crunchy and spicy dak gangjeong (glazed fried chicken bites) stores, which offer their own taste. The alley market has a rain protection facility and a clean and pleasant environment, and a wide parking lot for visitors’ convenience.

TypeTraditional markets
RegionGangwon
Address12 Jungang-ro 147beon-gil, Sokcho-si, Gangwon-do
Hours08:00-24:00 * Operating hours vary by store.
ClosedVaries by store
ParkingAvailable (350 parking spaces) * Parking voucher is issued for customers with a 15,000 won receipt
We cover this in more depth: 2 days on the east coast: Gangneung and Sokcho.

Getting there

From Korea Tourism Organization open data. Hours and admission change with the season and on public holidays — confirm with the venue before a long trip.

Within walking distance

Cheongchoho Lake (청초호)
900 m walk

Cheongchoho Lake

Dongmyeong Live Fish Center (동명활어센터)
1200 m walk

Dongmyeong Live Fish Center

Dongmyeong Port Pojangmacha Alley (동명항 포장마차 거리)
1.3 km away

Dongmyeong Port Pojangmacha Alley

Sokcho Lighthouse Observatory (속초등대전망대)
1.4 km away

Sokcho Lighthouse Observatory

Yeongnangho Lake Beombawi Rock (범바위)
1.4 km away

Yeongnangho Lake Beombawi Rock

Museum X (뮤지엄엑스)
1.7 km away

Museum X

Sokcho Beach (속초해수욕장)
1.8 km away

Sokcho Beach

Sokcho Eye (속초해수욕장 대관람차(속초아이))
1.8 km away

Sokcho Eye