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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 17 train stations
Best train stations in Gwangju
The 10 most notable train stations in Gwangju, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
효천역
광주광역시 남구 효천길 5
333 m from Hyocheon Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.822, percentile 100 of 17
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2
광주역
중흥동 611
12 m from Gwangju Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.426, percentile 93.75 of 17
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3
남광주역
54 m from Namgwangju Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.094, percentile 87.5 of 17
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4
광주송정역 - Ktx/코레일/Srt
상무대로 201
34 m from Gwangju Songjeong Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.056, percentile 81.25 of 17
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5
쌍촌역
0 m from Ssangchon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.873, percentile 75 of 17
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6
Songjeong Park Station
31 m from Songjeong Park Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.866, percentile 68.75 of 17
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7
서광주역
0 m from Seogwangju Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.849, percentile 62.5 of 17
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8
농성역
28 m from Nongseong Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.842, percentile 56.25 of 17
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9
도산역
58 m from Dosan Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.838, percentile 50 of 17
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10
김대중컨벤션센터역
Mareuk-dong, 김대중컨벤션센터역
58 m from Kimdaejung Convention Center Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.812, percentile 43.75 of 17
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).