Jongno Subway Hotels: Ibis Insadong vs Long Weekend Haus DDP

Ibis Ambassador Insadong is a 4-minute walk from Jongno 3-ga Station, where lines 1, 3 and 5 meet, making it the closest of these five properties to Jongno-gu's own subway hub. The question that actually decides which hotel works for subway access is whether a station sits inside the Jongno-gu grid itself, like Jongno 3-ga or Anguk, or whether it requires a transfer from a neighboring district such as Myeongdong, Euljiro or Dongdaemun. Three friends splitting rooms should settle that axis first: staying inside Jongno-gu means walking straight to a palace, a hanok street or Insadong without changing lines, while staying in Myeongdong or Dongdaemun means one transfer to reach the same sights. Sollago Myeongdong Hotel & Residence and Stanford Hotel Myeongdong sit closest to Myeongdong and Euljiro's own lines and reach Jongno by transfer. Long Weekend Haus DDP sits near Dongdaemun's Line 2, 4 and 5 cluster and suits a stay built around DDP itself, with a short subway hop into Jongno. Slowon Hotel Jongno is positioned inside Jongno-gu, near Anguk and Jongno 3-ga stations.

Ibis Ambassador Insadong

Ibis Ambassador Insadong sits in Jongno-gu's Insadong district, a 4-minute walk from Jongno 3-ga Station on lines 1, 3 and 5 according to the hotel's own listing, and its Premium double and twin rooms sleep up to three guests in 205-square-foot studios priced from $83 a night ($91 with tax) for a July 14, 2026 stay quoted on Hotels.com.

The 363-room property was renovated in 2025 and sits within a 5-minute walk of Insadong Culture Street. Rooms are studio units, not multi-room suites: no kitchen, a mini fridge, an electric kettle, a smart TV with OTT support and an en-suite shower booth.

• Check-in listed as 14:00 on some booking platforms and 15:00 on the hotel's own site
• On-site parking at a daily fee, reservation not guaranteed
• Photo ID and a credit card required at check-in

Guest reviews disagree on the walk to the station, with some describing 4 minutes and others closer to 10, and the check-in time itself is published two ways depending on the channel. Rooms can be reserved through Booking.com.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP, at 15-3 Ssangnim-dong, Jung-gu, is about 0.44 kilometers from Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on lines 2, 4 and 5, and its 12 suites, from the 36-square-meter Garden Suite that sleeps two to the 69-square-meter 702 Penthouse with three bedrooms and two bathrooms that sleeps up to eight, start from 306,000 won a night on the flexible-cancellation rate observed on 2026-09-19.

Every unit runs on a self check-in kiosk rather than a staffed front desk, which means a guest landing at Incheon after midnight can walk straight into the room instead of waiting on lobby hours. All twelve rooms are non-smoking, and the property posts a Trip.com aggregate rating of 9.5 out of 10 across 66 reviews as checked on 2026-09-14.

Three friends traveling together fit the Dining Suite or the Maru Suite, both split across two bedrooms so the group is not sharing one open room, and a party of four to eight fits the 702 Penthouse's three bedrooms and two bathrooms without doubling up on a single bath.

Bookings run through Long Weekend Haus's direct channel, listed on Trip.com alongside the site's direct booking page.

Sollago Myeongdong Hotel & Residence

Sollago Myeongdong Hotel & Residence stands in central Myeongdong, listed as 200 meters from Chungmuro Station on lines 3 and 4, and its Family Suite spans 53.53 square meters across two bedrooms and sleeps up to four guests for $51 a night ($64 with tax) on a July 29, 2026 quote checked 2026-09-21.

Every room type in the 478-room property includes a kitchen, a private bathroom with a bidet, and check-in from 15:00. Entry runs through a 24-hour unmanned kiosk system, with a door code instead of a physical key according to a guest review on a Korean booking platform.

• Family Suite: 53.53 sq m, two bedrooms, four beds
• Eco Plan rooms skip daily housekeeping on stays of two nights or fewer
• Cancellation and prepayment terms vary by rate plan

Station distance is reported inconsistently, from 200 meters up to nearly a kilometer depending on the listing platform, and Myeongdong Station itself sits on line 4, one transfer away from Jongno's line 1, 3 and 5 stations. Rooms are listed on Hotels.com.

Stanford Hotel Myeongdong

Stanford Hotel Myeongdong occupies a tower on Namdaemun-ro in Jung-gu, a 1-minute walk from Euljiro 1-ga Station on line 2, and its Superior double room sleeps two guests for $84 a night on a December 29, 2026 quote checked on Kayak on 2026-09-21.

Rooms include an electric kettle and a bidet bathroom but no kitchen or kitchenette in any listing reviewed. The lobby sits on the 9th floor, and check-in runs from 15:00 with check-out by 12:00.

• No pets allowed
• No on-site parking
• Guests under 19 traveling unaccompanied need a guardian's written permission to check in

Published room counts disagree across platforms, listed variously as 243, 254 and 292 rooms, and the property sits inside Euljiro and Myeongdong's own subway network instead of Jongno's, requiring a transfer to reach Jongno 3-ga or Jonggak. Rates and rooms are listed on Kayak.

Slowon Hotel Jongno

Slowon Hotel Jongno sits near Anguk Station on line 3 and Jongno 3-ga Station on lines 1, 3 and 5, placing it inside the same subway cluster that serves Jongno-gu's palaces and hanok streets.

The Slowon brand's other Seoul property, Slowon Hongdae, opened in 2025 as an all-new, non-smoking building 3 to 4 minutes from Exit 9 of Hongik University Station, per guest reviews on Tripadvisor, pointing to the chain's general model of new-build, station-adjacent stays across its Seoul locations.

Reviews of the Hongdae property describe clean, well-managed rooms and public spaces in a recently built structure positioned directly on a main road for easy access. Details on Slowon Hongdae are on Tripadvisor.