I could not very well go up Seoul Tower, and leave Lotto World Tower out, right?
So off I went today to Lotto World Tower, even though it was a 40 minute train ride out there.
There is an express double-car elevator that whisks the humans inside up to the 117th floor* in one minute flat. I felt a little vertigo, and my ears popped on the way up. There no view to the outside, just display screens on the sides and ceiling of the car.
*The Seoul Sky observation deck in the Lotte World Tower spans seven floors, from floors 117 to 123.
Here is the scene that greets you as you emerge from the exit at Jamsil station on Line 2 of the Seoul metro.I can only get the top of the Tower in when I stand close to it, of course. That little platform in the middle at the top is a sky deck.There is a luxury shopping mall at the base of the Tower, with the tower visible through the skylight. That’s the elevator shaft of the shopping mall on the right.All right! Now we can look out at the world from 120 floors up. Here is the Han River, and Seoul Tower on Namsan Mountain in the distance.Looking southwest here. The skyline in the distance is 40 km away (24 miles), and it is of the city of Ansan, South Korea.A great view of the bridges that span the Han River.This green space is Olympic Park. It opened on May 28, 1986. Built at a cost of US$200 million, it was built to host the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics.Down below is the theme park and recreation complex called Lotte World, sometimes called the ‘Korean Disneyland’.Phalanxes of apartment buildings. Yes— no way to house almost 10 million residents in your city by building single family homes on plots of land.Looking down from the 123rd floor into one of the atriums with a photo spot and a scenic view of the Han River.There is a little skybridge at the top of the Tower. I did not sign up for it!
