We woke up and got ready to leave our hotel for another beautiful day of exploring! I couldn't help but to take a photo of the view from the other side of the hotel while we waited for the lift. We took the train from Myeongdong Station to Anguk Station , where we wanted to have brunch at one of the famous cafes in the area.
During my preparation for the trip, I found that Onion cafe was the most popular in the area and as expected, the queue was very long! We didn't want to wait in the cold for hours and decided to continue along the street. We managed to grab whatever food that I could from the trays and ordered coffee, tea and hot chocolate bill came up to be 55k won.
We joined the queue to heat up our food using their toaster and collected our drinks when the buzzer rang. After breakfast, we walked to Gyeongbokgung Palace. I had scrutinised Google Maps while preparing for the trip and felt confident to lead the family to the palace based solely on my sketchy memory but super accurate internal direction-sense since Google Maps doesn't work in South Korea anyway.
My internal compass has not failed me yet! As we walked passed the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul , we spotted a Hanbok Rental store across the street and stopped to rent hanboks for me and my younger 2 kids. I paid 25k won for a themed hanbok, 25k won for each child's hanbok and 5k won for my hairstyle. I also paid 5k won to rent the white warmer as it was freezing cold in Seoul that day! The price was very reasonable compared to my experience of renting a kimono in Japan.
Obviously the girl and I had to choose pink hanboks! She kept calling her hanbok a "princess dress"! It was only about a 5-minute walk from the store to Gyeongbokgung Palace , the entrance nearest to the National Folk Museum of Korea.
