Places to visit in Yeongdeok

Yeongdeok's signature food street, packed with snow crab restaurants and stalls. The popular route: pick your crab at a ground-floor stall, then have it steamed upstairs at a nearby vinegar-sauce house

📍 강구면 강구항

The landmark here is Changpomal Lighthouse, shaped like a snow crab's claw. The coastal boardwalk overlooking the East Sea is superb, and it's open free, 24 hours a day

📍 영덕읍 창포리

An exotic landscape of 24 wind turbines lined up along a hillside. A great photo spot — take in the Pinwheel Park and the Renewable Energy Exhibition Hall too

📍 영덕읍 창포리

A seven-story observatory renovated in 2025. Take in a 360-degree panorama of Chuksan Harbor and the East Sea — free admission (10 AM–5 PM, closed Mondays)

📍 축산면 축산항

A private woodland trail one individual has tended for more than 20 years. A shaded path between rows of tall metasequoia trees, free to enter and a relaxing photo spot

📍 영해면 벌영리

An about-8km stretch of sand known as Myeongsa-sipni ('20-ri of fine sand'). Walk in the shade of pine woods along the shallow East Sea and unwind before heading home

📍 병곡면 병곡리

A large ocean-view bakery cafe on the Blue Road coast. The East Sea is visible from every floor, and the 3rd-floor terrace lets you enjoy coffee to the sound of the waves

📍 영덕읍 영덕대게로

Skip the crab for once — a light finishing meal of wild-caught mulhoe (raw fish in cold broth) and fresh sashimi with spicy fish stew. A local Yeonghae raw-fish restaurant with generous side dishes

📍 영해면 영덕로

This Yeongdeok flounder specialty restaurant is in Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok County, Gyeongsangbuk-do. It has appeared on the KBS lifestyle program Six O'Clock, My Hometown, and on TV Chosun's…

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Move On Coffee is in Geumjin-ri, Ganggu-myeon, Yeongdeok County, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Set on a coastal road with sea views off Yeongdeok, it…

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