Jigeum-i-got (지금이곳) is a bakery cafe in Unnam-dong on Yeongjong Island, fourteen minutes by taxi from Terminal 1. The short answer: this is the one cafe near the airport where staying for two hours is the point rather than the problem — but the bread comes out on a posted timetable that runs from 10:00 to 11:00, and if you walk in at half past nine you are looking at an empty case.
The name means roughly this place, now. It is a single building holding a bakery, a coffee counter, an indoor rock garden, a room where you sit on the floor, a lawn, and a wall of paintings. That sounds like a lot, and it is: the reason to come is that you can move between all of it instead of sitting in one chair waiting for a clock to run down.
What time does the bread come out at Jigeum-i-got?
There is a framed board by the bakery counter headed 빵 나오는 시간 / Bread Schedule, in Korean with the English title underneath, and it lists what comes out of the oven at three times in the morning. If you are on a clock it is the most useful object in the building, because it tells you whether the thing you came for exists yet.
| Time | What is listed |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Croissant, chestnut danish loaf, Mont Blanc danish, cinnamon twist, choc-chip custard danish, pain au chocolat, egg tart, lamington, blueberry loaf, squid-ink cheese loaf, chocolate loaf, croque monsieur, potato salad sandwich |
| 10:30 | Salt bread, pizza salt bread, garlic baguette, emmental cheese bread, mugwort rice-cake bread, soboro bread, red bean bun, corn cheese bread, condensed milk cream bun, injeolmi bread |
| 11:00 | Jambon-beurre salt bread |
So the practical rule is: arrive after 11:00 and the case is as full as it gets. Arrive at opening and you get croissants, danishes and loaves, but the salt breads are still half an hour off and the jambon-beurre one a full hour. Salt bread — a soft roll baked with butter through it and coarse salt on top — is the item this bakery has built its timetable around, and it is the one worth waiting for.
Prices are on small cards in the case, Korean on top and English underneath. The jambon-beurre salt bread was ₩7,900, a single choco cream cookie ₩2,100, and a boxed set of five cookies ₩9,900, marked down from ₩10,500. Prices seen in July 2026.
The case also holds sandwiches, scones, madeleines, slices of cake, and individually wrapped baked goods that are clearly meant as gifts. If you want something to eat on the plane that is not from a terminal shop, the wrapped cookies travel better than anything else in there.
How much layover time do you need for Jigeum-i-got?
Six hours. I would not send you out for this on five, and that is a different answer from most of the restaurant posts on this site, because at a restaurant you eat and leave. Sitting down for forty minutes and getting straight back in a taxi wastes what the place is for.
| Step | Good day | Bad day |
|---|---|---|
| Deplane, walk to immigration | 10 min | 25 min |
| Immigration queue | 25 min | 90 min |
| Taxi to Jigeum-i-got | 14 min | 14 min |
| At the cafe | your call | your call |
| Taxi back to Terminal 1 | 14 min | 14 min |
| Security screening | 15 min | 40 min |
| Departure immigration | 10 min | 30 min |
| Walk to the gate | 10 min | 20 min |
| Total, cafe excluded | 1 hr 38 min | 3 hr 53 min |
On a bad day the overhead alone is close to four hours, which leaves nothing on a six-hour layover and about three usable hours on a nine-hour one. If you are still working out whether leaving the terminal is allowed and what the queues really look like, I went through the rules and the timings in whether you can leave Incheon Airport during a layover. For a fuller plan of what fits in a longer window, there is a meal-by-meal breakdown in the seven-hour layover post, and a tighter one in the six-hour version.
How do you get to Jigeum-i-got from Incheon Airport?
Take a taxi. The address is 인천 영종구 운남로82번길 40 and the shop name is 지금이곳. Show the driver either one. Google lists it under the longer name 베이커리카페 지금이곳, so if you are checking the location before you go, the Google map pin for 베이커리카페 지금이곳 is the right one. Use Naver Map for directions and today’s opening hours — Google is reliable for finding the dot, not for the rest.
| From | Taxi time | Distance | Fare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal 1 | 14 min | 11.3 km | ₩12,100 |
| Terminal 2 | 17 min | 16.9 km | ₩16,200 |
| Yeongjong Station (영종역) | 10 min | 4.6 km | ₩7,500 |
| Unseo Station (운서역) | 9 min | 7.8 km | ₩9,500 |
Terminal 2 is three minutes further in time but 5.6 km further in distance, and that gap is where the ₩4,100 fare difference comes from. It is the same pattern as every other Unnam-dong address on this site.
Public transport works and takes about twice as long. From Terminal 1 the quickest routing is the AREX train eight minutes to Unseo Station (운서역), then bus 320 from the Howard Johnson Hotel stop (운서역(하워드존슨호텔)) nineteen minutes to Namdi Sageori (남디4거리), then a five-minute walk — 35 minutes and ₩3,100 in total, with two transfers. That bus does not run often. Put 지금이곳 into Naver Map and check when the next 320 actually leaves before you commit, because a missed bus out there costs more than the taxi would have.
If you are driving, there is parking along the front and side of the building and it was not tight.
Can you bring a suitcase?
Do not. The two best places to sit are a raised floor-seating platform where you take your shoes off at the edge, and a lawn you cross on stepping stones. Neither works with a case, and you would spend the visit keeping an eye on it instead of using the building. Both terminals have paid storage, and I wrote down what luggage storage at Incheon Airport costs and where the counters are so you can budget the extra twenty minutes each way.
What is the inside like?
Big, and built in zones. The ceiling is high and cut with skylights, so a full room does not feel closed in — which is not something I can say about most cafes on this island. In the middle there is a rock garden set below floor level under glass, gravel and boulders, with a large cherry-blossom tree standing in it. The tree is artificial and has small glass baubles hung through the branches. A wooden counter runs around the glass with padded stools along it, and those seats look straight down into the garden. Past the partition there are yellow and navy sofas and ordinary tables.
The detail worth knowing on a layover: the long white communal table has power sockets and USB ports set flush into the top, spaced a seat apart down its length. Korean sockets are the two-round-pin type, the same as most of continental Europe, and free wifi is standard in Korean cafes. If you have a long flight ahead and a phone at 20 percent, this table alone is a reason to pick this place over anywhere else nearby.
Off to one side there is a floor-seating room: a raised wooden platform, low tables, flat cushions, and one tall narrow window looking out at the skyline in the distance. Shoes come off at the step. It is the part of the building where an hour disappears without you noticing, and if your legs are tired from a flight it is the right call.
Is the garden worth going outside for?
Yes, and more so late in the day. A glass vestibule at the back of the room opens onto a lawn that is bigger than the building suggests — stepping stones set into the grass, parasols, coloured metal chairs, and bulbs strung between the trees that come on around dusk. It is a full loop, not a terrace with three tables on it.
There is an art exhibition on the way out
A run of framed paintings hangs on a white wall near the exit — sea pictures, hung properly with space between them rather than propped up as decoration. It takes two minutes and it is the sort of thing that makes the visit feel like somewhere you went rather than somewhere you sat.
What should you order?
I had an iced latte and the signature latte. The signature comes as a layered glass with cream in it, and the coffee underneath is strong enough that it does not go watery once it mixes — that is the thing that usually goes wrong with cream drinks. If you do not like sweet coffee, skip it. An americano or a plain latte is the safer order and nobody will think anything of it.
On ordering generally: the bakery labels are bilingual, so you can point at a card with an English name on it and be understood. Cards work everywhere in Korea, including foreign-issued ones, and there is no tipping and no service charge. There is a retail shelf of coffee beans and a counter of tumblers and mugs near the till if you are looking for something to carry home.
So who is Jigeum-i-got actually for?
Go if you have six hours or more, you want to sit rather than tick something off, and you need to charge a phone before a long flight. Two or three hours genuinely go by in there, and that is a compliment for a layover and a warning if your window is tight.
Do not go if you have five hours or less, or if what you want is simply a good cup of coffee. Two taxi legs and ₩24,000 to sit down for forty minutes is a bad trade, and if the coffee itself is the object then the six house blends at Sohn Coffee Lab, the roastery in Sky City, are the better stop.
The closer comparison is Swallow, further up the same street in Unnam-dong (운남로82번길). Swallow is one tall room with one very good view, and I said in my write-up of the garden cafe Swallow that it is worth the photographs and not the coffee. Jigeum-i-got is the opposite kind of visit: less of a single striking image, more of a building you can spend an afternoon in. If you have four hours, neither of them is a good idea. If you have eight, this is the one.
Common questions
What time does bread come out at Jigeum-i-got?
Jigeum-i-got posts a Bread Schedule board listing bread at 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00. Croissants, danishes, loaves and sandwiches are listed at 10:00, salt breads and buns at 10:30, and the jambon-beurre salt bread at 11:00. The board notes that times can shift depending on the day.
How far is Jigeum-i-got from Incheon Airport?
Jigeum-i-got is 11.3 km from Terminal 1, about fourteen minutes by taxi for a metered fare of roughly ₩12,100. From Terminal 2 it is 16.9 km and about ₩16,200.
Does Jigeum-i-got have power outlets?
Yes. The long white communal table has power sockets and USB ports set flush into the surface, roughly one cluster per seat. Korean sockets take the two-round-pin plug.
Is there an English menu at Jigeum-i-got?
The bakery price cards are printed in Korean with the English name underneath, and the bread timetable board is headed Bread Schedule in English, so the bakery side is straightforward to order from by pointing.
How much does bread cost at Jigeum-i-got?
The jambon-beurre salt bread was ₩7,900 in July 2026, a single choco cream cookie was ₩2,100, and a boxed set of five cookies was ₩9,900, reduced from ₩10,500.
Can you take a suitcase to Jigeum-i-got?
It is a bad fit. The floor-seating room requires taking your shoes off at a raised step and the garden is lawn crossed by stepping stones, so a case is awkward in both. Paid luggage storage at Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 is the better option.
