Your journeys. Your fare. Your top-up.

Know your fare.
Load what you need.

Choose a subway journey or build a bus transfer. Add it to your plan, then see how much to load on your Tmoney and how much cash to prepare.

Official station faresDistance & transfer checksOne person · one physical card

Rules checked 2026-10-06 · Each subway quote shows its own date. Official sources

01 / Who is travelling?

Passenger Current Tmoney balance · KRWUse 0 for an empty card.

Plan one person’s travel per card. Eligible free travel, under-6 rules and group tickets need an operator-confirmed fare.

02 / Add your journeys

Where are you going?

From

Type a station name, then choose a result.

First boarding before 06:30 · apply the early base-fare discount

This is the operator’s station-pair quote, not a route finder. A different path can have a different fare. Enter the final fare from your chosen route if it differs. AREX here means All-stop, never the separately ticketed Express.

Times taking this same one-way journeyAdd the return trip separately if its route or discount differs.

Only station names are sent for fare lookup. Your balance and plan stay in this tab and are lost on refresh.

Your journeys 0

Add a journey above, or try an example.

03 / Ready to top up

Your loading plan

₩ —

Add your first journey. Your fares, spare balance and existing balance determine the top-up.

Spare balance & card price

Optional spare · KRWEditable allowance, not a required deposit. Card purchase price · KRWUse the shop’s quoted price. It is not usable balance.

Cash top-ups are rounded up to ₩1,000. Up to ₩90,000 per transaction; stored balance up to ₩500,000. A large load is split into several transactions. Check the actual card reader before travelling.

What this planner checks

Distance & extra fares

Ordinary metro: first 10 km, then 5 km bands to 50 km and 8 km bands beyond. Shinbundang section charges stay separate. Station quotes retain special fares and operator discounts.

Transfer conditions

Seoul bus combinations use the highest base fare and combined distance. The planner checks tap-out, transfer time, repeated bus routes and the four-transfer limit. A single Seoul bus ride uses a flat fare.

Exceptions with a clear next step

AREX independent sections mixed with buses, GTX, other-region buses, missed taps, re-entry exceptions, long mixed-trip fare caps, free-pass eligibility and special tickets use a final confirmed fare. Climate passes and K-Pass reimbursements are not Tmoney loading discounts.

Sources & verification

Official source checks support the calculation rules. This is a planning tool; no independent ride or gate-deduction test has been carried out. English station aliases cover the published Seoul Metro names plus common editorial search aliases; all listed stations can be searched in Korean.

Seoul Metro: station-pair fare APICard fares, charged distance, separate additional fares and discounts; dated operator quotes
Seoul: subway and integrated fares10/50 km distance bands, early base discount, combined fares and transfer windows
Seoul: bus fares and transfer rulesFive Seoul bus categories, tap-out, same-route exclusions and four-transfer limit
Shinbundang: section surchargesSeparate section fares; passenger-category discounts and combined transfers
Tmoney: transport fare FAQsFirst-boarding early discount, normal base-fare differences, transfer windows and exclusions. Older re-entry details are not used for automatic quotes.
Tmoney: foreign-language user guideCash top-up in 1,000-won units, up to 90,000 per transaction and 500,000 stored balance
Seoul Metro: multilingual station namesEnglish name aliases from the 2024-11-01 dataset; matched only to current station names (KOGL Type 1 attribution)
Seoul Metro: bilingual metropolitan station map (image)English search names joined to Korean station codes from the official English/Korean map data, retrieved 2026-10-07; existing fare-service station IDs retained