Walk the Path Following the Traces of Gaya

In Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, there is a street called Gaya, which was selected as one of Korea's 100 most beautiful roads. The culture, history, and legends of Gaya are decorated with sculptures spanning approximately 2km from Gusan-dong to Jeonha-dong. There would be no shortage of dates starting from here, passing through the Daeseong-dong Ancient Tombs Museum and the Gimhae Hanok Experience Center, which are built on a large site, and then going up to the Gimhae Astronomical Observatory in the evening.

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Gaya Street

Gimhae City, as the birthplace of Geumgwan Gaya, created the streets of Gaya as a street park connecting major historical sites of Gaya culture in order to comprehensively reorganize historical and cultural resources scattered throughout the city. Within the total length of 2.1km, it is a skeletal landscape axis of the city that encompasses Haebancheon Stream, which preserves the glory of Gaya's glorious maritime trade, as well as the Bonghwang-dong ruins, Royal Tomb of King Suro, Daeseong-dong Ancient Tombs, and Gimhae National Museum scattered around, creating a space where the past and present of the city coexist and where nature can be enjoyed in daily life.\n

Museum of the ancient tombs in Daseong-dong

By exhibiting and introducing materials excavated from four excavations in the Daeseong-dong Ancient Tombs, it is a place to recognize not only the reality of Geumgwan Gaya, which has been hidden in history, but also that this is the center of Geumgwan Gaya. The museum has an exhibition room on the ground floor and ancillary facilities on the first basement floor. The three exhibition rooms on the first floor are divided into five exhibition spaces: introduction, overview, tomb, exchange, and culture.\n

Gimhae Hanok Experience Center

“Gimhae”, a place where you can welcome the mysterious empire where you can hear the pure love of General Hwang Se and Lady Yeoui and the sound of Ureuk’s gayageum in your ears, “Gimhae Hanok Experience Center” built by Gimhae City as part of the restoration project of Gaya historical sites and operated by the Gimhae Cultural Foundation on consignment. We tried to reproduce the 99-room house, a symbol of the nobility of the Joseon Dynasty, but due to unavoidable circumstances, one building could not be built, and sarangchae, anchae, and sarangchae were built. It consists of 7 buildings with a total of 85 rooms, including an outbuilding, lower building, outer building, haengnangchae, and shrine.

Gimhae Astronomical Observatory

Gimhae Astronomical Observatory opened on February 1, 2002 as part of the Millennium Commemoration Project in December 1998 to resolve the general public's curiosity about celestial bodies and the universe, to give dreams and hopes to growing youth, and to provide romance and memories to citizens.\n