Where to Start the Blue Line Park Sky Capsule: Mipo or Cheongsapo?

The Sky Capsule on Haeundae's Blue Line Park has two ends, and the one you board at decides the shape of your afternoon. It's easy to treat Mipo as the default and Cheongsapo as the place the pod drops you off. I think that's only half right. Mipo is the better start for most people, but the real reason to ride is what's waiting at the Cheongsapo end. Here's how I'd weigh the two, using the addresses and routes that Visit Busan and the subway operator publish.

What the two ends actually are

Blue Line Park is the old Donghae Nambu railway, 4.8 km of it, rebuilt as a tourist route from Mipo through Cheongsapo to Songjeong. Two rides share it. The beach train runs the full length and back. The Sky Capsule handles just the 2 km stretch from Mipo to Cheongsapo, riding a rail that Visit Busan puts 7 to 10 metres up.

That leaves you exactly two places to board the capsule. Visit Busan lists Mipo station at 13 Dalmaji-gil 62beon-gil and Cheongsapo station at 116 Cheongsapo-ro. Both are in Haeundae-gu and only 2 km apart, yet the two ends have little in common.

Mipo is the city side. It's where Haeundae Beach runs out at its eastern end, with high-rises right behind it and a small pier where fishing boats and pleasure boats come and go. Cheongsapo is a fishing village around the headland. The name means "blue sand," and its harbor still keeps small boats tied up in rows with nets along the quay.

Fares and ticket rules for both rides are in my Blue Line Park guide, so I won't repeat the tables here.

The case for starting at Mipo

Getting to Mipo is the simpler trip. Visit Busan's village page puts it 17 minutes on foot from Exit 7 of Jung-dong Station on Line 2. There's no transfer and no bus timetable to watch. The full walking route is in my post on getting to Mipo station.

Riding from Mipo also points you the right way. You glide away from the towers and arrive in the village, which is the better order for the view. Stepping off at Cheongsapo puts you in the village with the lighthouses, the skywalk and the old rail trail. From there you can carry on east to Songjeong, or walk back.

That's why Mipo is my answer for most people. The approach from the subway is predictable, and the part of the day worth lingering over comes after the ride rather than before it.

The downside is the return. Once you're at Cheongsapo, you're no longer beside a subway station. You'll need the beach train, a bus or your own legs to get back, so leave time for it.

The case for starting at Cheongsapo

Cheongsapo makes sense as a start in three situations.

The first is if you're already out near Jangsan, the last station at the eastern end of Line 2. Visit Busan's Korean page gives this route. Take Exit 3 at Jangsan and catch the village bus Haeundae-gu 2 from the Busan Bank Jangsan Branch stop. Get off at the Cheongsapo stop, and the village is a 3-minute walk.

One warning about that route. Visit Busan's English page for the same village says Exit 5 and a stop called Cheongsapo Mart. The Korean page says Exit 3. The subway operator's own exit list puts Busan Bank at Exit 3 and lists nothing beside Exit 5, so Exit 3 is the one I'd trust.

The second situation is driving. Visit Busan lists a Cheongsapo public parking lot along with an accessible parking lot. It gives no fee, so I won't guess one. At my own hotel, free parking only works because the front desk enters each car by hand, and guests who drive in don't know that step exists. Ask how a lot works before you walk away from the car, not after.

The third is timing. Riding from Cheongsapo toward Mipo ends your capsule trip at the edge of Haeundae Beach. If you want to finish the day on the sand or in the streets behind it, that direction delivers you there with no second leg.

The trade-off is real, though. Starting at Cheongsapo puts a bus ride in front of everything else. It also tempts you to hurry past the village to make your ride. If you choose this end, give the village its time first and board afterwards.

What's waiting at the Cheongsapo end

This is the part that settles the question for me. Cheongsapo isn't somewhere to pass through on the way to another stop.

The village's symbols are its twin lighthouses, one red and one white, at the end of a long straight path by the harbor. Near the water stands Mangbusong, an old pine tied to a local story. A fisherman's wife is said to have waited beside it for her husband to come home from sea.

Past the pine, the Daritdol Skywalk reaches out over the water. The Busan Tourism Archive gives it as 72.5 metres long and about 20 metres above sea level, with a half-moon transparent floor at the tip. Visit Busan compares walking it to stepping across the scattered rock islets below.

Then there's the old railway itself, now a walking path. Visit Busan describes it heading east from Cheongsapo through Gudeokpo village to Songjeong Beach. Heading west, it passes through a tunnel to Mipo and on to Haeundae Beach. Pines line one side and the sea lines the other, and Visit Busan counts it among the few coastal rail paths in Korea. It also lists the whole area as free, open all year and open at any hour.

So I'd rather you arrive here by capsule with time in hand than start here in a rush. Walking back toward Mipo on that path is a fair substitute for a return ride, if your legs are up to it.

If you're continuing to Songjeong

The beach train carries on from Cheongsapo to Songjeong, the far end of the line. You can pair the capsule with the train and keep heading east, which brings Songjeong's surf beach into the plan.

If surfing is the reason, know this before you set out. Board rental at Songjeong only goes to people who've completed a lesson. Foreign guests of mine turn up without knowing that and come back without a board. Book the lesson first, and my Songjeong post explains how the beach is organised.

My answer

Start the Sky Capsule at Mipo unless you're driving, already out near Jangsan, or planning to end the day on Haeundae Beach. Mipo is the easier approach from the subway, and it saves the best part for after the ride. If you do start at Cheongsapo, use Exit 3 at Jangsan rather than Exit 5, and let the village have your attention before you board.

Paying for the subway and the village bus is covered in my transit card guide. The hill above the rail line — Dalmaji and its forest path, the Moontan Road — has its own post for anyone who'd rather climb from Cheongsapo than ride back.

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Facts checked on 28 September 2026. Line 2 station order and Jangsan Station exits: Busan Transportation Corporation (humetro.busan.kr). Blue Line Park stations and routes, Cheongsapo and Mipo, village transit, parking and the rail path: Visit Busan (visitbusan.net). Daritdol Skywalk dimensions: Busan Tourism Archive (visitbusan.net). Photo: Busan Tourism Archive (visitbusan.net), KOGL Type 1