Cheonan Bakery Tour: Visiting Toujours Bread Oven Village on a Busy Sunday
AROUND KOREA #04 · CHEONAN BAKERY TOUR ๐ฅ
๐ฅ ๋นต์ ์ฐพ์ ๋ ๋๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ, ๋นต์ง์๋ก!
ํ๊ตญ์๋ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ํํ๋ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋นต์ง๋ค์ด ์์ด์. ๋์ ์ ์ฑ์ฌ๋น, ๊ตฐ์ฐ์ ์ด์ฑ๋น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฒ์์ ๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ๊น์ง! ์ด๋ฐ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋นต์ง์ ์ฐพ์ ์ฌํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ’๋นต์ง์๋ก'๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฌ์.
In Korea, some bakeries are so famous that people travel to other cities just to visit them. Sungsimdang in Daejeon, Lee Sung Dang in Gunsan, and Toujours in Cheonan are well-known examples. Koreans even have a special word for this kind of trip: ๋นต์ง์๋ก (bbangji-sullye), or a bakery pilgrimage!
'๋นต์ง์๋ก'๋ ๋นต๊ณผ ์ฑ์ง์๋ก๋ฅผ ํฉ์ณ ๋ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ํํ์ด์์. ๋ง์๋ ๋นต์ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ๋จผ ๊ณณ๊น์ง ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .
The word combines bbang (bread) with seongji-sullye (pilgrimage). It’s a playful Korean expression for traveling to famous bakeries, sometimes even planning an entire trip around them.
์ค๋์ ์ผ์์ผ ์คํ, ์ฒ์์ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋ก์ปฌ ๋นต์ง ๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ ๋นต๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ง์์ ๋ค๋ ์์ด์. ์คํ 3์์ฏค ๋์ฐฉํ๋๋ฐ, ์… ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ง๋๋ผ๊ณ ์! ๋นต์ง ํ๋์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ชจ์ด๋ค๋, ๋๋ผ์ ์ด์. ๐
This Sunday, I visited Toujours Bread Oven Village, a popular local bakery destination in Cheonan. We arrived around 3 p.m., and wow… it was packed! I couldn’t believe how many people had come just for bread. ๐
๐ 1. Sunday at 3 PM — The Large Parking Lot Was Almost Full!
๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ์ ๋์ฐฉํด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋๋ ๊ฑด ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ์ด์์ด์. ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ ๋ถ์ง๊ฐ ์๋นํ ๋์ ํธ์ธ๋ฐ๋ ์ฐจ๋ค์ด ๋นผ๊ณกํ๊ฒ ๋ค์ด์ฐจ ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ์. ์ผ์์ผ ์คํ 3์, ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋นต์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐพ์์๋ ๋ด์.
The first surprise was the parking lot. It was quite large, but almost every space was occupied. At 3 p.m. on a Sunday, it seemed that everyone had the same idea: go out for some delicious bread!
์ฃผ์ฐจ๋ ์ฐจ๋๋ง ๋ด๋ ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ค๊ฐํ ์ ์์์ด์. ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ์ด ๋๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฌ์ ๋ก์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ ๋ง์ธ์. ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์ ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ง์ฐจ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ต๋๋ค.
Just looking at all the parked cars gave me a sense of how popular this bakery is. If you’re visiting on a weekend, don’t assume parking will be easy just because the lot is big. It was nearly full during my visit.
♿ 2. Stroller and Wheelchair Access
์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ ๋ค์์ผ๋ก ํ์ธํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์ถ์ ๊ตฌ์์. ์ ๋ชจ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ๊ณ๋จ์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์ผ์ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
As a mom traveling with a young child, one of the first things I look for is an accessible entrance. Carrying a stroller up and down stairs isn’t always easy!
๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ์์๋ ์ฅ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฉ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๊ตฌ์ญ๊ณผ ๋ณ๋์ ์ถ์ ๋์ ์ด ๋์ ๋ค์ด์์ด์. ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ์์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฌ๋ก๊ฐ ์์๊ณ , ํ ์ฒด์ด ์ด์ฉ์๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ถ์ ๊ตฌ ์๋ด๋ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์์ด์. ์ผ๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ํ๋๋ก ์๋ด๋์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
At Toujours, I noticed accessible parking spaces, a ramp connecting the parking area to the building, and signs for a wheelchair-accessible entrance. All other visitors were directed to the main entrance.
์ค์ ๋ก ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๋ชจ์ฐจ์ ํ ์ฒด์ด๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ํธ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ด๋ํ ์ ์๋์ง๋ ์ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ์์ค์ด ๋ง๋ จ๋์ด ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด์.
I can’t say how convenient the route would be for every type of stroller or wheelchair, but I appreciated seeing facilities designed with accessibility in mind.
๐ก 3. More Than a Bakery — A Little Bread Village
์ด๊ณณ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ '๋นต๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ง์'์ด์์. ์ง์ ์ ๋ณด๋ ์ ๋ง์์ด๋ผ๋ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋ถ์๋์ง ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ด์. ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๋๋ค ๋นต์ง๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋นต๊ณผ ์นดํ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋์ด ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ์.
The place is called Bread Oven Village, and after visiting, I understood why. Instead of a single small bakery, it has several spaces where visitors can explore baked goods, enjoy drinks, and spend time together.
๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋ด๋ถ๋ ์ฒ์ฅ์ด ๋๊ณ ๋๊ฒ ํธ์ฌ ์์์ด์. ๋นต์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค, ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค, ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊น์ง. ์ผ์์ผ ์คํ์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ต๋๋ค.
Inside, the ceilings were high and the space felt open and airy. People were choosing bread, ordering coffee, and looking for seats. The whole place was buzzing with Sunday afternoon energy.
์ง์ด๋์๋ ๋ค์ํ ๋นต์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ๊ณ , ๋๊ฐ๋ง ๋นต์ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์๋ดํ๋ ๋ณผ ์ ์์์ด์.
The displays were filled with all kinds of bread and pastries. I also noticed signs introducing bread baked in a stone oven.
์ฐฝ๊ฐ์ ์์ผ๋ ๋ฐ๊นฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ ผ๊ณผ ๋ฎ์ ์ฐ์ด ๋ณด์์ด์. ๊ฐ์๋น์ด ๋ด๋ ค์์ ๋๋ฌด์ ์ํ์ ๋ง์น ๋ ผ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋, ๋์ฌ ์ ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค๋ฆฌ ์นดํ์๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋๊ปด์ง๋๋ผ๊ณ ์.
From our seat by the window, we could see rice fields and low mountains. The autumn-colored trees and harvested fields created a peaceful countryside view, quite different from a typical bakery cafรฉ in the city.
๐ 4. How Do You Say “Bread” in Your Language?
๋งค์ฅ ์์์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ๋ฒฝ๋ฉด ์ฅ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ด์.
"๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ผ๋ค์ ๋นต์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ถ๋ฅผ๊น์?"
์ปค๋ค๋ ๋ฒฝ๋ฉด์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋ผ์ ์ธ์ด๋ก '๋นต'์ ๋ปํ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ค์ด ์ ํ ์์๋ต๋๋ค.
I found something interesting on one of the walls inside the bakery.
“How do people say bread in different languages?”
The wall displayed words for bread from languages around the world!
- ๐ฐ๐ท ํ๊ตญ์ด (Korean) — ๋นต (Bbang)
- ๐บ๐ธ ์์ด (English) — Bread
- ๐ซ๐ท ํ๋์ค์ด (French) — Pain
- ๐ฉ๐ช ๋ ์ผ์ด (German) — Brot
- ๐ช๐ธ ์คํ์ธ์ด (Spanish) — Pan
ํ๋ฒํ ๋นต์ด๋ผ๋ ์์ ํ๋์๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค์ํ ์ธ์ด๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฒจ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์์ด์. ํ๊ตญ์ด์ '๋นต'์ด๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ธ์ด์์ ๋ค์ด์จ ๋ง์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์ค, ์๊ณ ๊ณ์ จ๋์?
I loved seeing how one simple food could connect so many languages. And here’s a little Korean language fact: the Korean word bbang actually has roots in a foreign language!
ํ๊ตญ์ด '๋นต'์ ํฌ๋ฅดํฌ๊ฐ์ด pรฃo์์ ์ผ๋ณธ์ด 'ํ(ใใณ)'์ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋ค์ด์จ ๋ง๋ก ์๋ ค์ ธ ์์ด์. ์์๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ์์์ ์ด๋ฆ๋ ๋๋ผ์ ๋๋ผ ์ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฌํํ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ์ง ์๋์?
The Korean word bbang is generally traced back to the Portuguese word pรฃo, which came to Korea through Japanese (pan). It’s fascinating how food—and even the words we use for it—can travel across cultures.
๐ 5. The Power of a Local Korean Bakery
๋งค์ฅ ์ถ์ ๊ตฌ์์ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๊ฒ์๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ด์.
'์ ๊ตญ 2์ ๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ'
์ฑ์ฌ๋น์ ์ด์ด ๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ๊ฐ 2์๋ก ํ์๋ ๋งค์ถ ์์ ์๋ด์์ด์. ๋ค๋ง ์ด ์์๋ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๊ฒ์๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก, ํ์ฌ ์ ๊ตญ ๋ชจ๋ ๋นต์ง์ ๋งค์ถ ์์๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ๋์ง๋ ํ์ธํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ด์.
Near the entrance, I noticed a sign presenting Toujours as Korea’s No. 2 bakery by sales, behind Sungsimdang. However, this was information displayed at the bakery, and I haven’t independently verified whether it reflects the current nationwide ranking of all bakeries.
๊ทธ ์์๋ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ ๊ณผ๋ช ์ฅ ์ ์ ์ถํ ์๋ด๋ฌธ๋ ์์์ด์. ์ด๋ฐ ์๋ด๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ ์ง์ญ์์ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์์์จ ์ ๋นต ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋์ ํ์ด ๋๊ปด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
There was also a congratulatory display celebrating a baker named a Korea Master Baker (๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ ๊ณผ๋ช ์ฅ). Seeing these displays made me think about the baking expertise and reputation that local bakeries can build over many years.
์์ฆ ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ ๊ตญ ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋น์ทํ ํ๋์ฐจ์ด์ฆ ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ์ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ง์ญ์์ ์์ํ ๋นต์ง์ด ๊ทธ ๋์์ ๋ช ์๊ฐ ๋๊ณ , ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ์ฐพ์์ค๋ ์ฌํ์ง๊ฐ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์ฐธ ๋๋จํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก์ด์.
In Korea, it’s easy to find familiar chain stores in almost every city. That’s why I find it special when a local bakery grows into a destination that people are willing to travel for.
๋นต ํ๋๊ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ์์ง์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ง์ญ์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ญํ ๊น์ง ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ์ด๊ฒ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ์ฌํ ๋ฌธํ ์ค ํ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
A loaf of bread can bring people together and even help put a city on the travel map. To me, that’s one of the charming things about Korea’s bakery culture.
๐ 6. A Bakery Pilgrimage Is More Than Buying Bread
๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ ๋นต๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ง์์ ๋จ์ํ ๋นต์ ์ฌ๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ธฐ์๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์์ด์. ๋์ ์ค๋ด, ๋ค์ํ ๋นต, ์ปคํผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ฒฝ๊น์ง ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
Toujours Bread Oven Village felt like more than a place to buy bread. With its spacious interior, variety of baked goods, coffee, and autumn countryside views, it was also a pleasant place for a family outing.
๋ค๋ง ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ ์ผ์์ผ ์คํ์๋ ์๋์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ง์์ด์. ์กฐ์ฉํ๊ณ ํ์ ํ ์นดํ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์๊ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด ๋ณด์๋ ๊ฒ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
However, it was extremely busy on Sunday afternoon. If you’re looking for a quiet cafรฉ experience, you may want to consider visiting at a different time.
๋์ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฌ๋น, ๊ตฐ์ฐ์๋ ์ด์ฑ๋น, ์ฒ์์๋ ๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ. ์ง์ญ๋ง๋ค ์ฌ๋๋ฐ๋ ๋นต์ง์ด ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋นต์ง์ ์ฐพ์ ๋ ๋๋ ์ฌํ์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์ง ์๋์?
Daejeon has Sungsimdang, Gunsan has Lee Sung Dang, and Cheonan has Toujours. I love how different Korean cities have their own beloved bakeries—and how visiting them has become a travel experience in itself.
๐ Visitor Information — Toujours Bread Oven Village
| Information | Details |
|---|---|
| Bakery | Toujours Bread Oven Village (๋์ฅฌ๋ฃจ ๋นต๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ง์) |
| Location | 706 Pungse-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea |
| Opening hours | Bakery & Cake House 08:00–22:00 / Cafรฉ 10:00–20:00 |
| Visit date | Sunday, October 25, 2026 |
| Arrival | Around 3:00 PM |
| Parking | Dedicated parking lot, nearly full during our visit |
| Accessibility | Accessible parking, ramp, and designated entrance signage |
| Known specialties | ๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ง์ฃผ (Stone-Oven Manju), ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด๋นต (Turtle Bread), ๋๊ฐ๋ง๋ธ๋ ๋ (Stone-Oven Bread) |
*๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋น์ ๊ด์ฐฐํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์
์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์์ค ์ด์ฉ ์๋ด๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ ๊ณต์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
*This post is based on my visit. Please check current opening hours and accessibility information before traveling.
๐ Your Culture — Teach Korean Ajumma!
ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋นต์ง์ ์ฐพ์ ์ฌํํ๋ ๊ฑธ ’๋นต์ง์๋ก'๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฌ์. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ๋๋ผ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ๋จผ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ ๋งํผ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋ก์ปฌ ๋นต์ง์ด ์๋์?
In Korea, we call traveling to famous bakeries bbangji-sullye—a bakery pilgrimage! Is there a local bakery in your country that’s so famous people travel just to visit it?
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์ธ์ด์์๋ '๋นต'์ ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋์? ๋๊ธ๋ก ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์! ๐ฅ๐
And how do you say “bread” in your language? I’d love to learn from you in the comments! ๐ฅ๐
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