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Saturday, June 15, 2019

2 Jun 2019 - Busan Day 2: Centum City (World's Largest Department Store)

The Shinsegae Centum City Department Store is registered in the Guinness World Records as the largest shopping complex in the world. The department store has a countless number of items all under one roof. Visitors can also enjoy numerous entertainment options in the complex. Shinsegae, which opened the first department store in Korea, reflects decades of retail experience in this flagship location.  The department store has emerged as a defining landmark in Busan.
The moment we entered the store, we were greeted by some beautiful sculptures.
The department store consists of 14 floors and 2 basements.
Below are the floor guide:
14F Golf Range.
13F Golf Range.
12F Golf Range.
11F Golf Range.
10F Trinity Restaurant / Trinity Club & Sports.
9F   Restaurants / Shinsegae Culture Hall / Zooraji / Customer Service.
8F   Basic Casual / Event Hall / Thank-you Event Hall.
7F   Home Collection / CGV.
6F   Kids Wear / Golf Wear / Shinsegae Gallery / Shinsegae Academy.
5F   Men Wear / Cine de Chef.
4F   Women Wear / Ice Rink / Food Park.
3F   Sports Wear / Outdoor Wear / Women Wear / Shoes.
2F   Luxury Boutiques / Watches / Women Wear.
1F   Luxury Boutiques / Cosmetic / Spa land.
B1   Fashion Goods / Food Market / Event Hall.
B2  Fashion Street / Parking.
An official Guinness World Records Certificate is being displayed at the central of the mall.
We proceeded to the 9th floor looking for dinner but a Zooraji sign led us to an outdoor playground.  Huge dinosaurs including tyrannosaurs, the king of all the dinosaurs, can be found in the Land of Dinosaurs.
At one corner of the playground was a Pirate Ship called the Black Ghost.
Other parts of the playground includes African Village, Spirit Tree (Carousel), Fountain Garden and BaoBab Woods.  If we were here 3-4 years ago, Jerlene and Javier would run wild.  They have now out-grown such fun already.
We had a nice view of the surrounding from the playground.
It's dinner time!  We walked around all the different restaurants before we finally decided on one.  Below were what we had ordered.  Initially we thought we had ordered too much but to our surprise, we actually finished it all!
After this wonderful meal, Javier fell in love with the beef and Jerlene fell in love with the fish.
We continued to explore other parts of the mall.  Jerlene and Javier love the gigantic bean bags in the store.
There is an Ice Skating Rink, Kidzania and a shop selling thousands of Gundam figurines.
We then came to an area with lots of Virtual Reality (VR) games.  Javier immediately exclaimed:"BEAT SABER"!  He saw this in some Youtube videos and he even created a Scratch program to simulate this game quite recently.  If interested, you may try his game here.  You need to play it on a PC with webcam as it's going to sense your movement.  After seeing his eagerness to try out the actual Beat Saber, we bought several playing vouchers for him to try out.
He started with the lowest difficulty and eventually ended playing the insane level.  And that attracted a lot of people watching.
As the sun started setting, we decided to go outdoor and see some night lighting.
The night views were beautifully with all the lighting that lighted up all the buildings around.
There seemed to be an outdoor concert across the road, so we decided to go take a look.  We can only peeked through the crowd and we need to pay for admission to enter the concert ground.
We ended out night walk by visiting Busan Cinema Center at BIFF Hill.  The entire ceiling was lighted up beautifully with ever changing colourful patterns.
By the time we returned to Busan Station, it was about 9:15pm.  There is a convenience store, GS 25, near our hotel and we visited it to buy breakfast every night before returning to our room.



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