Seoul Forest Pokemon Secret Forest Guide: Dates, Location, Crowds, and What to Know

Pokemon Secret Forest is the Pokemon-themed pop-up garden at Seoul Forest, created as part of the 2026 Seoul International Garden Show and Pokemon Mega Festa 2026. For readers searching for the Seoul Garden Show Pokemon area, the key point is that the official garden page lists Pokemon Secret Forest at Seoul Forest from May 1 to June 21, 2026, while the broader garden festival continues in the Seoul Forest area through October 27, 2026.¹²

Because the Pokemon program drew heavy crowds on its opening day, this guide focuses on what is confirmed: where the garden is, what visitors can expect to see, how it fits into the wider Seoul Garden Show, and what the May 1 crowd reports mean for planning a visit.

Seoul Forest Pokemon Secret Forest: Dates and Location

Pokemon Secret Forest is officially presented as a character pop-up garden by Pokemon Korea under the name “Pokemon Secret Forest.” The official 2026 Seoul International Garden Show page connects it to Pokemon Mega Festa 2026 and describes it as a garden-style space with Pokemon Store original merchandise.¹

The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Hangang event notice gives the broader setting: the 2026 Seoul International Garden Show is a free, on-site participation event held around Seoul Forest from May 1 to October 27, 2026. Within that program, the Pokemon pop-up garden is described as being installed in the Ginkgo Tree Forest area of Seoul Forest, covering 2,800 square meters.²

For Pokemon fans, the most useful confirmed detail is the character lineup described in the city notice. Visitors can encounter more than 10 kinds of Pokemon, including Pikachu, Espeon, Vaporeon, Glaceon, Eevee, and Leafeon.² The source material does not provide a separate ticketing requirement for Pokemon Secret Forest, and the city notice describes the wider garden show as a free on-site participation event.²

What Visitors Can Expect at the Pokemon Garden

The Pokemon Secret Forest concept is a forest-themed pop-up space rather than a conventional indoor exhibition. Reporting based on Pokemon Korea materials described the Seoul Forest installation as an approximately 2,800-square-meter forest-themed area that includes photo zones, experience spaces, exhibitions, and original merchandise sales.³

That matters for planning: the attraction appears to be designed for walking, viewing, photography, and light interactive participation, with merchandise as a separate draw. The available source material does not list daily operating hours, reservation slots, purchase limits, or a detailed merchandise catalog. It also does not confirm whether every activity is available every day during the May 1 to June 21 Pokemon Secret Forest period.

Pokemon Mega Festa 2026 is broader than Seoul Forest alone. Inven, via Daum News, reported that the festival began on May 1, 2026, centered around Seongdong-gu in Seoul, with Pokemon Secret Forest positioned as part of the Seoul International Garden Show.³ A Pokemon Korea representative said the company hoped the festival’s varied content across the city would become a place where “different generations can enjoy and connect together.”³

For a practical visit, the safest expectation is to treat Pokemon Secret Forest as an outdoor garden attraction with popular photo points and possible merchandise interest, not as a guaranteed full-day controlled-entry event. The confirmed official facts support a Pokemon-themed forest garden at Seoul Forest, but they do not provide a full operating manual.

Crowd Context from Opening Day

Opening day on May 1, 2026, was unusually crowded in the wider Seongsu-dong and Seoul Forest area. Yonhap News reported that large crowds gathered for the Pokemon 30th anniversary-related event, with Seoul city estimates rising from 26,000 people at Seongsu Cafe Street at 10 a.m. to about 40,000 around noon. The report also noted that visitors to the nearby Seoul International Garden Show Pokemon garden overlapped with the crowd flow.⁴

Newsis reported that organizers urgently halted the event at the request of police and local authorities as visitors concentrated around Seongsu Cafe Street and Seoul Forest. The same report cited Seoul city figures of about 40,000 people at Seongsu Cafe Street and about 120,000 inside Seoul Forest at noon, while also reporting that there were no casualties or injuries.⁵

SBS News also reported congestion around the Pokemon 30th anniversary event on May 1, including disruption around Seongsu Station and cancellation of programs such as limited card distribution after a Seoul city request.⁶ Pokemon Korea’s own message, quoted by Newsis, said that “collisions are occurring due to large crowds.”⁵

For readers planning after May 1, the important distinction is scope. The reports describe crowd problems and emergency program changes on the opening day of Pokemon Mega Festa 2026. The source material still lists Pokemon Secret Forest itself as running at Seoul Forest from May 1 to June 21, 2026, but it does not provide later operational updates, crowd-control changes, or revised daily schedules.¹

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