A KTX-I high-speed train standing at a platform at Busan Station. — A KTX-I at Busan Station, 2014. Doug Letterman · CC BY 2.0

The carriage was a set · Yeon Sang-ho · 2016

Train to Busan

The railcar interiors were built in a studio, with LED screens playing the view outside. The stations were real. In the window: a KTX-I at Busan Station, 2014.

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Change the plate

Same seats, new station

The carriage never changes. Pick a station to put outside the window, and see what the sources say it did in the film. Principal photography ran from 26 April to 18 August 2015, according to The Cinemaholic.

Sources

The glass and steel front of Seoul Station seen from the forecourt. — Seoul Station, 2022. Mobius6 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where the film opens

Outside the window: Seoul Station. Where the film opens.

Seoul to Daejeon

Seoul Station

Seoul and Seoul Station exteriors open the film, with KTX and other trains on the platforms, The Cinemaholic says.

MovieMaps lists Seoul Station among the film’s filming locations, crediting Filmap.

Most interior train scenes were shot in a South Korean studio, in a railcar built for the film, with the scenery outside simulated by LED plate rear screens, The Cinemaholic says.

Wikipedia says the LED plate set behind the train was modelled on the interior of the KTX-I, and that it kept the focus on the actors and was easier than green screen.

A working station with KTX and subway services; walk in from the forecourt. Anyone can enter the concourse.

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Who played whom

Daejeon, or somewhere else?

Wikipedia lists Daejeon Station as a filming location. A fan wiki says the platform scenes were shot elsewhere. Switch the view to see each account.

Daejeon Station

Wikipedia says Daejeon Station was used as a filming location for the film.

The Cinemaholic calls Daejeon the first stop, where the passengers get off and find the city overrun. It does not say how that stop was filmed.

Sources

Dongdaegu Station

Search-result summaries of Namu Wiki say the platform where the train stops in the film’s Daejeon scene is at Dongdaegu, and that the hall and the passage to the platforms are in its second station building.

Another summary of that wiki says the Daejeon scenes were shot at Seodaejeon and Sapgyo, and that at Sapgyo several sets of train cars were put on flatbed wagons and joined to look like KTX carriages.

Sources

Showing the listings: IMDb’s locations page lists Daejeon Station, according to a search-result summary.

Both accounts rest on community sources. No official location list was found, so the two are shown side by side and not settled.

Final stop

Walk into the stations

All six are working stations and open to anyone. The railcar itself was a studio set, so there is nothing of it to visit.

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Where it is now

6 stations you can visit between Seoul and Busan.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working station with KTX and subway services; walk in from the forecourt. Anyone can enter the concourse.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working KTX station south of Seoul; walk in. It is a stop for some KTX services only.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working station with KTX and subway services; walk in from Jungang-ro.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working station on the Honam Line; walk in from Oryu-ro.

Seoul Station, 2022. Mobius6 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seoul to Daejeon · Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Seoul Station
Seoul and Seoul Station exteriors open the film, with KTX and other trains on the platforms, The Cinemaholic says.
A working station with KTX and subway services; walk in from the forecourt. Anyone can enter the concourse.
Sources
Cheonan-Asan Station, 2007. gtknj · CC BY 2.0
Seoul to Daejeon · Baebang-eup, Asan, South Chungcheong
Cheonan–Asan Station
The Cinemaholic names Cheonan–Asan as a stop on the film’s route from Seoul to Busan, and does not say how or where it was filmed.
A working KTX station south of Seoul; walk in. It is a stop for some KTX services only.
Sources
Tracks at Daejeon Station, 2014. Minseong Kim · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seoul to Daejeon · Dong District, Daejeon
Daejeon Station
Wikipedia says Daejeon Station was used as a filming location for the film.
A working station with KTX and subway services; walk in from Jungang-ro.
Sources
Seodaejeon Station, 2014. Minseong Kim · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seoul to Daejeon · Jung District, Daejeon
Seodaejeon Station
Search-result summaries of Namu Wiki list Seodaejeon among the stations used for the film’s Daejeon scenes, along with Haengsin, Cheongju and Sapgyo; its page versions disagree.
A working station on the Honam Line; walk in from Oryu-ro.
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Stay

Start in Seoul.

A Seoul hotel for the night before the line south.

Lotte Hotels

The Grand Lotte Seoul

Jung-gu, Seoul

A hotel at 30 Eulji-ro in Jung-gu, Seoul, for the first night before the line south. Its page gives no distance to Seoul Station. Pictured: Seoul Station, 2022.

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Go there

Ride the line.

Day trips between Seoul and Busan, and tours of Busan.

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Seoul Station
Yongsan-gu, Seoul
- The shoot
  Principal photography runs from 26 April to 18 August 2015, across stations and a studio.
- The studio carriage
  Interior train scenes are shot in a built railcar, with scenery outside the windows played on LED plates.
Cheonan–Asan Station
Baebang-eup, Asan, South Chungcheong
- The Cheonan–Asan stop
  The train’s route calls at Cheonan–Asan.
Daejeon Station
Dong District, Daejeon
- The first stop
  The train reaches Daejeon, where the city is overrun.
Seodaejeon Station
Jung District, Daejeon
- Daejeon played elsewhere
  A fan wiki lists Seodaejeon among stations used for the Daejeon scenes.
Dongdaegu Station
Dong District, Daegu
- The locomotive change
  The train is blocked and the survivors switch locomotives; the station is shot on location with computer effects added.
- Dongdaegu plays Daejeon
  A fan wiki says the Daejeon platform scene was shot at Dongdaegu.
Bujeon Station
Bujeon-dong, Busanjin District, Busan
- Arrival in Busan
  A few Busan sequences are shot at Bujeon Station in Seomyeon.