I bet you're thinking, "Why the hell are you doing a post about the top of a department store for?", and I guess your right, I live in East Asia, I should be covering temples and weird food and shitty pop and Hello Kitty cafes right? Well I saw a temple once and the rest ca.....actually fuck you it's my blog.
I've been up to the top of the NampoDong's Lotte Department store many times, it's offers sweet views of the Busan tower, the docks and the path ways leading on to Yeongdo-gu, an island district home to another favourite Busan spot, Taejongdae. As all good attractions in Korea do, it has a coffee shop (never drink Angel-In-Us coffee) and lock-loves, rusted from years of sea wind and elemental exposure.
Plus it's free. Poor and got 30 minutes to kill in this shopping district? Go to here.
The last time I took said advice I found the sky garden was now home to a petting zoo, screaming children, tired parents, wary animals all immediately dropped their interests to check out the scruffy mega-bearded super-foreigner taking pictures of everything...that is until the pig escaped...
Take yr young'uns, just be ware of the extra creepy art that seems omnipresent, three years ago I found black-face-Winnie-The-Pooh, multicoloured gargoyles guarding the toilets and acid-face stretch-cats to sit on. This time, just a wooden dog peeing (seen above) and puke-green giraffes. An artist wanting the sack perhaps?
How to get there:
Get to Nampo-dong Station (Line 1/Orange Line - Only three stops from the Busan KTX Station)
Soundtrack:
Peter Wyeth - Poppy's Afternoon
The soundtrack to the joyous laughter of youth.