Juknokwon(bamboo garden )& Metasequoia-lined Road in Damyang

Juknokwon in Hyanggyo-ri is famous for its bamboo forest bath. It is situated just left to the hyanggyo (Confucian school) beside Gwanbangjerim Riverside Park and Damyang stream, the basin of Youngsan River.
As you take each step towards the bamboo garden, your body will be relaxed and your mind will be refreshed by the cool wind blowing between the bamboos. Listen to the rustling bamboo leaves as you stroll along, and receive the sunlight that passes through the green leaves. Jukro tea leaves grow by the falling drops of dew in the bamboo garden.
Take a sip of the Jukro tea and lift your head towards the sky while enjoying the forest bath. You will savor the scent of bamboos that makes you calm and peaceful

• Address
• 282 Hyanggyo-ri, Damyang-eup, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do 

The metasequoia trees were first planted along the road in the early 1970s when the Ministry of Home Affairs designated this road as a part of the national boulevard project. The saplings that were three to four years old have grown so big and tall that they even block the sky. The Korea Forest Service and Forest for Life selected the Metasequoia-lined Road as the Korea’s most beautiful road in 2002.

If you follow National Road No. 15 up from the Korea Bamboo Museum, you will be mesmerized by a beautiful boulevard that looks like it came straight out of a fairytale. The metasequoia trees along with the bamboo grove add to the exotic and mind-blowing scenery. They look like fairies or toy trains when seen from a distance, but like the Queen’s guards at Buckingham Palace when you are at the boulevard.

• Address
• 578-4 Hakdong-ri, Damyang-eup, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do