A first day in Busan done almost entirely on foot: about 5.5 km, 1 hour 40 minutes of actual walking, and 8 to 9 hours with meals and rest.
The order
Haeundae Station → Haeundae Beach → the Dongbaek Island trail → Nurimaru APEC House → The Bay 101 → the Marine City night view
- From Exits 3 or 5 of Haeundae Station (Line 2), about 600 m along Gunam-ro
- The Dongbaek Island loop is a flat 1.2 km, 30 to 40 minutes
Walk it counterclockwise
Going counterclockwise from the entrance puts the Gwangan Bridge view in the second half. Saving the best frame for late is the whole design of this route.
Clockwise spends your best angle first and leaves you working through the rest.
Set the start time backwards from sunset
Time it so the second half begins 30 minutes before sunset, when The Bay 101 peaks. What sets the schedule here is not the distance or your legs — it is the hour the sun goes down.
Parking
The island approach road jams on weekend afternoons. Leave the car at a public car park near Haeundae Station and walk; it is quicker.
If the evening runs longer
This route ends on the Marine City night view. Adding the Gwangan Bridge LEDs means timing the lighting hour, which is covered separately.
Leg-by-leg routing with transit and parking is on the WeBring blog.