Why travel to Canada?
Canada offers 4 curated city guides, 72 attractions and 28 signature dishes hand-picked by Korean travelers. Below you'll find essentials Korean passport holders actually need — visa requirements, daily budgets in USD, best season, and on-the-ground transport tips.
Best Season
May-October is the best time to visit. Summer (June-September) is peak tourist season, and winters are very cold.
Budget
Daily budget around $130-210 (accommodation $70-130; food $30-50; transport and admissions $30-35).
Visa
Korean passport holders need an eTA approved in advance (stays of up to 6 months).
Transport
About 25 minutes from Pearson Airport to downtown on the UP Express train. The TTC subway, buses, and streetcars cover the city. Prepaid SIMs (Bell, Rogers, Fido) available at the airport. Tap and card payments accepted nearly everywhere; cash is rarely needed. Restaurant tipping of 15-20% is standard.
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🗺️ Attractions Across the Country
CN Tower
Canada's 553m iconic landmark, with a glass-floor observation deck offering sweeping city views.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Canada's largest museum, with collections spanning natural history and world cultures.
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Niagara Falls
About 1.5 hours from Toronto — one of the world's three great waterfalls, with overwhelming volume.
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Distillery District
A Victorian distillery complex reborn as an arts, shopping, and dining district.
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St. Lawrence Market
Toronto's iconic 200-year-old food market, famous for the peameal bacon sandwich.
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Casa Loma
A Gothic-style castle in central Toronto, with elaborate interiors and gardens.
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Toronto Islands
An island chain in Lake Ontario - 15 minutes by ferry, with the best head-on view of the Toronto skyline.
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Kensington Market
A bohemian multicultural neighborhood packed with vintage shops and international eateries.
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Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
A large aquarium next to the CN Tower featuring a 96-metre underwater tunnel where visitors walk beneath sharks and rays.
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Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
One of Canada's leading art museums, renowned for its Frank Gehry-redesigned building and collections spanning European masters to contemporary Canadian art.
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Hockey Hall of Fame
A museum celebrating the history of ice hockey and its legendary players, where visitors can see the actual Stanley Cup trophy.
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High Park
Toronto's largest park, famous for its spring cherry blossoms, with Grenadier Pond and a small free zoo.
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Toronto Zoo
One of North America's largest zoos, home to pandas, polar bears, and countless species organized into regional themed pavilions.
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Nathan Phillips Square & Toronto City Hall
Toronto's modernist City Hall, defined by two curved towers, and its adjoining public square that becomes an outdoor skating rink in winter.
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Fort York National Historic Site
A fort that defended Toronto during the War of 1812, now one of Canada's best-preserved military heritage sites.
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Rogers Centre
Home of the Toronto Blue Jays and the world's first stadium with a fully retractable roof, located right next to the CN Tower.
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Aga Khan Museum
North America's first museum dedicated to Islamic art and civilization, set within beautifully landscaped gardens.
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Scarborough Bluffs
A dramatic 15-kilometre stretch of cliffs along Lake Ontario, where Bluffer's Park offers both a lakeside beach and sweeping cliff views.
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Stanley Park
A massive 405-hectare downtown park famous for its Seawall promenade and totem poles.
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Capilano Suspension Bridge
A thrilling 140m-long suspension bridge 70m above an old-growth forest.
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Granville Island
Vancouver's cultural hub, packed with artisan studios and a fresh produce market.
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Gastown
Vancouver's birthplace - a historic district of cobblestone streets, Victorian buildings, and a famous steam clock.
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Grouse Mountain
A North Vancouver mountain resort - take the gondola up for Vancouver views, skiing, and grizzly bears.
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English Bay Beach
A popular downtown beach famed for sunsets and as the venue for the August Celebration of Light fireworks festival.
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Vancouver Aquarium
Canada's largest aquarium, inside Stanley Park - home to over 70,000 marine animals including sea otters, beluga whales, and penguins.
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Vancouver Lookout
A 168m observation deck at Harbour Centre with sweeping 360-degree views of Vancouver.
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC
A museum on the UBC campus holding the world's largest collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art.
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Queen Elizabeth Park
A park at Vancouver's highest point, featuring quarry gardens transformed from old basalt pits and panoramic city views.
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VanDusen Botanical Garden
A 22-hectare botanical garden built on a former golf course, famous for its 7,500+ plant varieties and Elizabethan hedge maze.
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Science World (Telus World of Science)
An interactive science center housed in the iconic geodesic dome built for Expo 86, especially popular with families.
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
The first full-scale classical Chinese scholar's garden built outside Asia, faithfully recreating a Ming Dynasty private garden style.
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Lynn Canyon Park & Suspension Bridge
A free North Vancouver nature park featuring a 1912 suspension bridge and old-growth forest trails.
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Vancouver Art Gallery
Western Canada's largest art museum, housed in a converted former provincial courthouse.
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Canada Place
An iconic waterfront landmark in Vancouver known for its distinctive sail-shaped roofs.
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FlyOver Canada
A 4D flight-simulation attraction that lets visitors soar virtually over Canada's landscapes.
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Steveston Village
A historic fishing village in Richmond built around Canada's largest small-craft harbour.
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Notre-Dame Basilica
A spectacular Neo-Gothic basilica with a stunning blue vaulted ceiling and stained glass.
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Old Montreal
A historic district where 17th-century French colonial stone buildings and cobblestone streets remain.
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Mount Royal Park
The hill the city is named after — the summit offers a sweeping view of Montreal's skyline.
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Jean-Talon Market
One of North America's largest open-air markets, a treasure trove of Quebec produce and gourmet food.
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Montreal Botanical Garden
A 75-hectare world-class botanical garden famed for Japanese and Chinese gardens and the autumn Gardens of Light festival.
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Plateau Mont-Royal
A trendy bohemian neighborhood packed with iconic exterior staircases, murals, and indie cafes.
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Underground City (RÉSO)
A 32km underground pedestrian network - the world's largest, keeping you warm and shopping all winter.
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Montreal Olympic Stadium
The 1976 Olympic main stadium, crowned by the world's tallest inclined tower.
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Canada's oldest art museum, home to a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts.
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Pointe-à-Callière Museum
An archaeology and history museum built on the very spot where Montreal was founded.
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Saint Joseph's Oratory
Canada's largest church, perched on Mount Royal and known worldwide as a pilgrimage site.
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Montreal Biodome
An indoor ecosystem museum housed in a former Olympic velodrome, recreating four ecosystems of the Americas.
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Montreal Insectarium
North America's largest insect museum, showcasing specimens and live insects from around the world.
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Old Port of Montreal
A historic waterfront stretch along the St. Lawrence River, offering walking paths, cycling, and family activities.
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Habitat 67
An experimental modular housing complex built for Expo 67, now an architectural icon of Montreal.
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Bonsecours Market (Marché Bonsecours)
A neoclassical landmark with a striking silver dome that once served as Canada's parliament and Montreal's city hall.
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Lachine Canal National Historic Site
A historic canal linking the Old Port to Lake Saint-Louis, now a scenic path for walking, cycling, and exploring industrial heritage.
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Parc La Fontaine
A 34-hectare urban park in the Plateau, where two linked ponds offer pedal boating in summer and skating in winter.
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Lake Louise
An emerald lake fed by the Victoria Glacier — the symbol of the Canadian Rockies.
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Banff Gondola
A gondola ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain for sweeping panoramic views of the Rockies.
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Moraine Lake
A turquoise lake encircled by ten peaks — a scene once featured on Canadian currency.
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Johnston Canyon
A popular trail winding through a canyon to waterfalls - and freezing into spectacular ice falls in winter.
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Banff Upper Hot Springs
A natural hot spring set against the Rockies - a mineral-rich pool at 1,585m elevation.
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Icefields Parkway
One of the world's great drives - 232km from Banff to Jasper through glaciers, lakes, and peaks.
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Lake Minnewanka
Banff's largest lake, known for boat cruises and wildlife sightings.
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Banff Avenue
Banff town's main street, framed by Cascade Mountain - a quintessential mountain village scene.
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Cave and Basin National Historic Site
A thermal cave and spring where Banff National Park and Canada's national park system were born, making it the birthplace of Canada's first national park.
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Banff Park Museum National Historic Site
Built in 1903, this is the oldest federal building in any Canadian national park and houses a natural history collection of Rocky Mountain flora and fauna.
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Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
A cultural museum dedicated to the art and history of the Canadian Rockies, and the fourth-largest cultural history museum in Alberta.
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Bow Falls
A wide waterfall on the Bow River beside the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel — modest in height but impressively broad.
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Surprise Corner & Hoodoos
A famous viewpoint overlooking the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel and Bow Falls, connected by trail to the eroded rock spires known as the Hoodoos.
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Vermilion Lakes
A chain of three shallow lakes just west of the Banff townsite, famous for wildlife viewing and sunrise photography.
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Two Jack Lake
An emerald-green lake famous for its mirror-like reflection of Mount Rundle, popular for camping and canoeing.
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Tunnel Mountain
The closest and most accessible peak to the Banff townsite, offering summit views of the Bow River valley and Cascade Mountain.
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Peyto Lake
A glacier-fed lake with striking turquoise water, one of the most photographed viewpoints along the Icefields Parkway.
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Bow Lake
A lake fed by the Bow Glacier, home to a historic backcountry lodge and a signature stop on the Icefields Parkway.
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