A guide compiled from official announcements — the official festival website (organized by Yangyang County, run by the Yangyang Cultural Foundation: festival overview, featured activities, performances, schedule and venue guide), the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's regional festival listing, and reports by MTN and the Kangwon Domin Ilbo, checked on October 8, 2026 — not a review of a visit; we haven't been yet. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
- Dates
- Fri, Oct 16, 2026 ~ Sun, Oct 18
- Hours
- 10:00–21:00 daily
- Venue
- Namdaecheon Stream riverside, Yangyang (양양 남대천 둔치 일원)Around 589 Ilchul-ro, Yangyang-eup, Yangyang-gun, Gangwon (강원 양양군 양양읍 일출로 589 일대)
- Fee
- Admission free · hand-catching & treasure hunt 30,000 won per person (20,000 won on Oct 16)
- Organizer
- Yangyang County, Yangyang Cultural Foundation (양양군, 양양문화재단)
- Official
- Official notice (Korean) ↗
- Updated
- when we last re-checked the official notice
📅 Schedule at a glance
October 2026
Event daysHighlightsTodayKorean public holidays
Korea Meteorological Administration · 10/15, 2 AM issued · forecasts can change
📌 What's on each day
- 10/16Fri★ Opening fireworks · Mushroom cookingToday
- 10/17Sat★ Rock concert · Salmon cookingToday
- 10/18Sun★ Closing ceremonyToday
🔁 Daily · Salmon hand-catching & mushroom treasure hunt 3 times a day · eco tour · snack playground · tour train
Yangyang Pine Mushroom & Salmon Festival 2026 — Dates, Booking Salmon Hand-Catching & Parking Before You Take the Kids to Namdaecheon
2026 Yangyang Pine Mushroom & Salmon Festival poster — Oct 16 (Fri)–18 (Sun), 2026, 10 AM–9 PM, Namdaecheon Stream riverside, Yangyang (양양 남대천 둔치 일원) (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
It’s autumn, when salmon
come back from the far-off sea
to Namdaecheon Stream 🐟
The 2026 Yangyang Pine Mushroom & Salmon Festival
(양양송이연어축제)
runs for three days,
Oct 16 (Fri) – 18 (Sun),
from 10:00 to 21:00 every day,
on the Namdaecheon Stream riverside
in Yangyang, Gangwon.
We’ve put together
the activities, schedule and parking info
from the official festival website
of Yangyang County.
🎪 What is this festival?
past festival — children in front of a mushroom sculpture (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
This year’s slogan is
’The deepest table,
set by pristine nature’.
Songi (pine mushrooms)
grown deep in the mountains,
and salmon returning to Namdaecheon —
Yangyang’s two autumn foods
come together in one festival.
There are also four new
festival characters:
Songsongi, Sol-halbae,
Yeondongi and Daecheon-eomeom.
🎟️ Book the popular activities first!
past festival — people catching fish in the river (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
past festival — people looking for fish in the river (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
The three headline activities
take advance bookings
in the Gogo Yangyang app (고고양양).
The website says
’bookings only in the app’.
| Activity | 3 sessions a day · people per session · price |
|---|---|
| Pine mushroom treasure hunt | 10:00 · 12:30 · 14:30, 80 people, 30,000 won per person |
| Catching salmon by hand | 11:00 · 13:30 · 15:30, 100 people, 30,000 won per person |
| Yangyang salmon eco tour | 10:30 · 13:30 · 15:30, 20 people, free |
Of the 30,000 won, 10,000 won
comes back as Yangyang Sarang gift vouchers
(a local voucher, 양양사랑상품권)
Friday the 16th has a weekday discount:
20,000 won per person.
Spots per session are split
between online and on-site sign-up.
| Sign-up | When · spots per session |
|---|---|
| Online (Gogo Yangyang app) | 9/28 to 10/17 — treasure hunt 50 · hand-catching 60 · eco tour 15 |
| On-site | All three festival days — treasure hunt 30 · hand-catching 40 · eco tour 5 |
On-site sign-up for hand-catching
and the eco tour is first come,
first served on the day.
For the treasure hunt and hand-catching,
you meet in front of the festival operations HQ
and go to the activity site together.
The eco tour leaves by bus
from the meeting booth.
✨ What’s on, and when?
past festival — a chef cooking at an outdoor cooking station (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
past festival — fireworks bursting in the night sky (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
Here are the stage programs by date.
Evening shows are only
on the 16th and 17th.
| Date & time | Program |
|---|---|
| Oct 16 (Fri) 13:00 | Magic bubble show (main stage) |
| Oct 16 (Fri) 14:00 | Pine mushroom sukiyaki cooking show, free tasting for 150 |
| Oct 16 (Fri) 19:00–21:00 | Opening ceremony · celebration concert · fireworks |
| Oct 17 (Sat) 13:00 | Lifelong learning parade (around the festival grounds) |
| Oct 17 (Sat) 14:00 | Salmon ikura-don cooking show (salmon roe rice bowl), free tasting for 150 |
| Oct 17 (Sat) 18:00–21:00 | Rock concert — six bands incl. Crying Nut (크라잉넛) |
| Oct 18 (Sun) 15:00 | Pre-show performances (incl. Hana Daycare, 하나어린이집) |
| Oct 18 (Sun) 16:00–18:00 | Closing ceremony & after-party — Park Ji-heon, Park Sang-min |
| Oct 16·17 15:00, Oct 18 13:00 | ‘Songi Master’ auction show (송이도사), bids from 1,000 won |
The fireworks are listed
in the last slot of the timetable,
‘20:30–21:00 Kim Hye-yeon & Fireworks’.
No separate start time is given.
🧒 What can you do on the spot?
These activities need no booking —
you just join on site.
Most run from 10:00 to 18:00.
| Activity | Price · details |
|---|---|
| Songi & Salmon Expedition + salmon roe gacha | Free, finish the missions for a gacha prize |
| Snack playground — cookie collage | 10,000 won per person, 40 teams per session |
| Face art — Songsongi & Yeondongi | Free |
| Suncatcher · plaster air freshener · key ring · wood objet | 5,000 won each |
| Namdaecheon eco tour train | 3,000 won one way · 6,000 won round trip, 24 people per run |
The snack playground runs
6 sessions from 11:00 to 17:00
on the 16th and 17th,
and 5 sessions until 16:00 on the 18th.
The tour train leaves Namdaecheon
on the hour, and the Chrysanthemum Garden
(국화정원) at half past.
On the stamp tour (free),
collect all 7 stamps and go to the operations HQ
to get local farm produce (100 people a day).
The Ministry of Culture’s listing says 6 stamps,
so we went with the official website’s 7.
🍢 Food & market
Local restaurants and food trucks
set up at the food market,
and the Saemaul community association
runs a grilled salmon restaurant.
There’s also a fisheries co-op (Suhyup)
specialty products stall.
At the Gangwon hanwoo (Korean beef) booth
on the embankment road,
tasting is free; the charcoal grill area is paid.
Pine mushroom liquor making, social dining
and the craft beer pop-up
are programs for adults.
🚗 Getting there & parking
The festival address is
589 Ilchul-ro, Yangyang-eup
(양양읍 일출로 589;
226-2 Nammun-ri, around the Namdaecheon riverside).
| Parking lot | Address · spaces |
|---|---|
| Riverside lot across from the indoor gym | Seomun-ri 16 (서문리 16) · 200 cars |
| Indoor gym public parking lot | Nammun-ri 3-23 (남문리 3-23) · 150 cars (paid) |
| Namdaecheon Sports Park lot 1 | Yeonchang-ri 198-3 (연창리 198-3) · 200 cars |
| Namdaecheon Sports Park lot 2 | Yeonchang-ri 203-4 (연창리 203-4) · 80 cars |
| Yangyang County Council lot | Gunhaeng-ri 7 (군행리 7) · 100 cars (Sat & Sun only) |
The website doesn’t list
the public lot’s fee,
or any shuttle bus or public transit info.
👨👩👧 Going with kids?
past festival — a child holding a mushroom in the forest (Photo: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 3)
For the treasure hunt,
children under 13 must come with a guardian.
Comfortable clothes and hiking boots
are recommended.
Hand-catching happens in the water,
so the notice asks you to bring
aqua shoes, a towel and a change of clothes.
Didn’t get a booking? Start with the free ones!
The expedition & gacha, face art
and the stamp tour cost nothing.
Gogo Yangyang app only, until 10/17
On-site: just 40 and 30 spots per session
On Fri the 16th, it's 20,000 won per person
⏳ Not announced yet
□ Where the treasure hunt and hand-catching take place
□ Shuttle bus & public transit info
□ What happens if it rains
□ Public parking lot fees
□ Whether the voucher refund applies at the Oct 16 discount price
□ The exact start time of the fireworks
None of this is in the official notices yet.
We’ll update this post when it is.
Questions: festival info line
033-671-7888
(weekdays 09:00–18:00)
👍 Recommended for families who…
✔ want to catch a salmon
with their own hands
✔ want to hunt for pine mushrooms
in the forest
✔ want to stay for the fireworks
on opening night
Book the reserved activities
in the app first,
pick the rest on site,
and it’s a festival where you
meet pine mushrooms and salmon in one day.
We put this together from official announcements before visiting. Event photos are from the Korea Tourism Organization, released under KOGL Type 3 (attribution, no derivatives) and shown unedited. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
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🔄 Updates
- One-week check
- First write-up
📎 Sources
- 한국관광공사 국문 관광정보(TourAPI) — 양양송이연어축제 행사 사진 (contentid 506708) 한국관광공사 · 관공서
- 2026 양양송이연어축제 (축제소개·추천 체험행사·공연 프로그램·축제일정·행사장 안내) 양양송이연어축제 공식 누리집(주최 양양군·주관 양양문화재단) · 주최
- 양양송이연어축제 문화체육관광부 지역축제 · 관공서
- [글로컬픽]양양송이연어축제 인기 체험, 28일부터 사전예약 머니투데이방송(MTN) · 2026.9.23 · 기사
- 양양송이연어축제, 캐릭터 4종 공개…"생태·미식 문화축제로" 강원도민일보 · 2026.9.15 · 지역신문
- 양양군, 송이·연어축제 10월 통합 개최…지역경제 '가을 특수' 기대 머니투데이방송(MTN) · 2026.7.2 · 기사
This is a guide based on official announcements, not a visit review. Schedules, programs and fees can change, so please re-check the official notice before you go.
Translated from our Korean post with AI assistance. Dates, times, prices and other numbers were checked against the Korean original on October 8, 2026. The official announcements are in Korean; we have not checked whether there will be English signage or guidance at the festival, or whether the Gogo Yangyang app works in English. Original post (Korean)