I spent an hour strolling, taking photographs and simply enjoying the picturesque ambiance of the walkway or path in the early afternoon of an autumn weekend. Getting There: Take Subway Line 1 or 2 to City Hall station and come out of Exit 2. Walk straight and in about 2 minutes the pedestrian walkway is on your right, starting from the Deoksugung Palace Daehanmun Gate entrance or the popular Liege Waffle shop. Alternatively, you could come out of Exit 3, head straight and reach the pedestrian road or path on the left in about 1 minute. The Attraction: The pedestrian path or road is about 1.1 kilometre and hugs the stonewall of Deoksugung Palace which is the smallest of the 5 palaces in Seoul. Understandably the most crowded and the most scenic (in terms of trees inside the Palace grounds) part of the walkway is the 300 metre stretch after Daehanmun Gate entrance to the roundabout. As I walked this stretch, I saw people - singles, couples, friends, families with children, tourists (like me) – strolling, smiling, chatting, laughing, relaxing, taking selfies and wefies, enjoying the scenery etc – I could not help but just feel the love between people and between people and Mother Nature. Adding to the mood along the path were a violist and a saxophonist performing romantic songs. But do not just stop at the roundabout and walk back to Daehanmun Gate. Continue on to the right of Deoksugung-dil along a 300 metre stretch that would go past a section of the wall next to the back of the white National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art building. After that, turn right (along with the Palace wall) into an interesting part of the walkway – Korean stone wall of the Palace on one side and Western-styled brick and rock wall of the British Embassy on the other side. The walkway abruptly stops when you reach the British Embassy closed gate but fret not – walk through the entry gate that was created at the Palace wall onto a special board walk with barriers that goes into Deoksugang Palace and then out through another gate into the wide Sejong-daero 19-gil. As this special path allows you to enter briefly into Deoksugang Palace free of charge (and catch a glimpse of the back of Seokjojeon Hall), you would do well not to sneak through the barriers and enter the “paid” Palace grounds; anyway, there are patrolling staff and surveillance cameras to prevent this from happening. This stretch of the path is also quite scenic and has significantly less people walking here. I enjoyed the following: (1) The extension of the stunning autumn orange, red and yellow foliage from the maple and gingko trees inside Deoksugung Palace to beyond the Palace Wall (2) Many benches for tired legs and just relaxing (3) Urban space where people and nature coexist (4) Refreshment from the cool and gentle breeze (5) Learning about the Korean culture and history from information at several display boards Couples walk this road or path in many K-dramas such as The Beauty Inside, It’s Beautiful Now and Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Even though you are not dating and even though it is not autumn, I still recommend the stonewall walk as a “must do (walk)’ attraction in Seoul.

This stonewall of Deoksugung marks a very nice, tree lined small street that is perfect for a stroll. From the palace this route leads you to the American Ambassadors Residence and the Seoul Museum ofArt. On weekends the road is often closed to allow pedestrians more space. At the palace end are Dunkin Donuts, a famous waffle stalls and some restaurants and on the other end across from Enwha Girls high school are more cafes and restaurants. The stroll is quite nice and when in the area would highly recommend to take it,