Goyang Stadium: Which Station, Which Gate, Which Last Train

Last verified August 29, 2026

This page is for someone who already holds a ticket to a show at 고양종합운동장, the Goyang Sports Complex in Ilsanseo-gu. It covers getting there, getting in, and getting home, in that order. Buying the ticket belongs to whichever seller your show uses, so that is not covered here. The venue publishes its own directions in Korean, and the English wording below is ours. Two official pages name different stations for this stadium, so decide which one is yours before you set off.

Two official pages, two different stations

The stadium sits at 1601 Jungang-ro, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do — 경기 고양시 일산서구 중앙로 1601 if you are pasting it into a map app — and the operator’s desk answers on 031-929-4876.

The venue’s own directions page, read on 2026-08-29, names 대화역 on Line 3 as the nearby station and does not mention GTX-A at all. Its subway instructions are two lines. Leave Daehwa by Exit 3, which it marks 종합경기장방향, toward the stadium, then cross the crosswalk and come in through the East Gate.

The railway operator’s page tells a different story about the same building. GTX-A’s station page for 킨텍스역, station code X102, lists Exit 1 as the way out for 킨텍스 제1전시장, the first exhibition hall, and for 고양종합운동장 itself. It is a standalone station with no interchange, and the operator gives its structure as B7, seven levels below ground.

Neither operator is wrong. Each describes its own network, and neither page mentions the other. What that leaves you with is a gap, and the English pages that try to bridge it make it wider. NOL World’s venue page carries a note box whose heading sends you to Kintex Station on the GTX-A line, while the body of the same box puts you on a bus and then walks you in from Daehwa Station. Its auxiliary-ground page repeats that box unchanged. Read the heading alone and you get off 2 km from the stadium, at a station that no page read here connects to it with a walking time.

So pick your station before you travel rather than on arrival. The two operator pages each name a different one, NOL’s note names both, and Kintex Station is 2 km from the stadium. If you do arrive on GTX-A, take Exit 1 — the exit its own operator lists for the stadium.

Getting there from the airport, Hongdae or central Seoul

NOL World’s venue page answers the arrival question in English, and it answers it twice: once by bus, once by subway.

From Incheon Airport it names bus 3300, getting off at Daehwa Station, about an hour. From Hongdae, meaning Hongik Univ. Station, it names bus M7731 direct to Daehwa Station in about 40 minutes. From Myeongdong or Gangnam it says the subway is the more convenient option. Both bus routes are described as reaching Daehwa Station, not the stadium, so the walk in the next section still applies.

The same page prints four subway estimates under a column it labels Total Travel Time. Myeongdong is about 1 hour 10 minutes with one transfer, and Hongik University Station about 1 hour, also with one. Seoul Station on GTX-A is about 56 minutes with no transfer, and Incheon International Airport about 1 hour 48 minutes with two. The page does not say whether those include the walk at either end, so treat them as rough.

One caution on Line 3 comes from the same page: some Line 3 trains bound for Gupabal stop short of Daehwa. Read the destination shown on the front of the train rather than the line colour.

Fares and departure times for bus 3300 are not in any page read here, so check those with the operator on the day. If you are routing through the city first, the ways into Seoul from Incheon Airport are a separate article on this site. On paying for the trip itself, NOL World says the Climate Card works on Line 3, including transfers. What the Climate Card covers and who it suits is covered separately.

From Daehwa Station to the East Gate

The route from the ticket gate is short and the two sources agree on it. Leave by Exit 3, walk straight, cross the pedestrian crossing, and the main stadium is in front of you. NOL World adds that the East Gate is the gate closest to the station, which is the same gate the venue’s Korean page names.

NOL World puts two different numbers on that walk, on the same page: a note box calls it a 7 min walk from Daehwa Station, and its “How to get there” line gives 13 minutes. Its separate page for the auxiliary ground gives 9 minutes from Exit 3. The venue’s own directions page gives no time at all. Budget the longer figure — one page’s own two numbers disagree by six minutes.

Two bus stops carry the ground’s name, 고양종합운동장.일산서구청 and 대화중학교.종합운동장, and the venue’s page lists regular and community routes calling at them. Route numbers change more often than stop names do, so on the day it is the stop name that identifies the right one.

If you are driving, the same page names two car parks and no rates. They are the public car park at Daehwa Station and the underground VIP car park beneath the West Gate. What changes on a show day, in either car park, is not something the pages read here settle.

Getting in: what the venue publishes about seats and gates

The venue’s own grade chart carries three grade labels, A석, B석 and C석, and no VIP석, R석 or S석 on it. The same chart divides the stands into four sectors, labelled W, N, E and S. Block numbering inside each sector is the subject of the next article in this series.

For a concert, the layer you actually navigate by is a different one. NOL World’s page says a ticket may carry a colour such as red, green or blue, depending on the performance. Signs mark each colour, and following yours takes you to the gate nearest your seat. The colour changes from show to show, and it is not on the venue’s chart at all — that chart is colour-coded by grade, not by gate. On the night it is the colour on your ticket you follow, not a grade letter.

Four pages read here give five figures for how many people fit, from about 40,000 (NOL World) to around 43,000 (VisitKorea); the Goyang City page alone carries two. Plan for a venue that seats at least 40,000 however you got there — NOL World’s own page says the crowd leaving can put more than 30 minutes between the stands and the station.

Two practical notes come from NOL World’s pages and not from the venue’s. Its main-stadium page calls the restrooms inside very crowded, says temporary restrooms may be set up outside, and suggests carrying tissue. Its page for the auxiliary ground says that on performance days booths are set up there for merchandise sales and luggage storage, in support of the main stadium.

For bags, the same two pages point outward rather than inward. The main-stadium page lists a locker at Daehwa Station, and the auxiliary page describes a few lockers inside it. That puts the storage decision before the walk, not after it.

Getting home: the last train depends on where you sleep

Daehwa is the end of Line 3, so every departure runs the same way and the timetable posts a last train for each destination rather than one for the station. There are five such destinations on the weekday tab and six on the Saturday and holiday tabs, and the holiday tab repeats the Saturday figures exactly.

Where you are sleeping decides which of them is yours, and the rule is that the further along the line you are going, the earlier your last train leaves. Everything between Yaksu and Dogok — 금호 (Geumho), 옥수 (Oksu), Apgujeong, Sinsa, the Seocho-gu stations and Maebong — has the Dogok (도곡) train as its last, at 23:40 on a weekday and 22:44 on a Saturday or public holiday. From Daechi through Suseo (수서) the Dogok train stops short of you, so yours is the Suseo train at 23:22 and 22:34. For Songpa-gu — Garak Market, Gyeongchalbyeongwon and Ogeum — it is the Ogeum (오금) train, and that is the first of all of them to stop: 22:54 and 22:25. For the centre, Yaksu (약수) at 00:03 on weekdays and 23:03 on Saturdays and holidays is the last train that reaches the central Seoul stations, not the last train of the night. Between the earliest and the centre-bound train the difference is 69 minutes on a weekday and 38 minutes on a Saturday or holiday.

Two later times on the same table are easy to misread. Samsong (삼송) is posted at 00:14 and 23:36, later than Yaksu on both tabs, but Samsong is inside Goyang and boarding it does not get you into Seoul. Gupabal (구파발), at 23:20, appears on the Saturday and holiday tabs only; it enters Seoul but stops short of the centre. Across the five destinations posted on both tabs, the Saturday and holiday train leaves 29 to 60 minutes earlier than its weekday counterpart.

Treat all of these as read on 2026-08-29 rather than as fixed. The detailed timetable further down the same station page carries its own caution directly above it, saying the times below may change with operating conditions. The page does not warrant its own figures, so check yours again on the day.

GTX-A is the other way out, and its last train toward Seoul Station is posted at 00:42 from Kintex Station. The evening service thins before that — five departures in the 22:00 hour, four in the 23:00 hour. The timetable page read here posts one set of times with no weekday or weekend split, so 00:42 should not be assumed to hold on a Saturday.

A later last train at Kintex Station is not the same as extra time, because Kintex Station is 2 km from the stadium and no page read here gives a walking time from that station to the stadium. NOL World also warns that it may take more than 30 minutes just to reach the station after a show, which comes off whichever last train you have picked.

Buses and taxis are the remaining options. NOL World’s venue page puts the last buses between 22:40 and 00:00, and its page for the auxiliary ground gives the same window. For taxis, that second page warns of heavy traffic immediately after a performance. It notes that taxis waiting near the venue may prefer long-distance fares, and recommends booking through a taxi app in advance.