Nürnberg Transportation

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Nuremberg Airport is the international airport of the Franconian metropolitan area of Nuremberg and the second-busiest airport in Bavaria. The airport is ranked 10th among German airports and 67th in Europe. It surprised me on how many corners of the Airport smoking is still welcomed. The other time when I made it out of Nuremberg, snow on Easter turned the intire Airport into some heavy white. It was my first time to see how it looks like when the plane one is already sitting in, get some hot, real hot, shower. These folks on the ground do an amazing job.

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The city is surrounded by a network of motorways connecting it to all directions of the compass. A state-of-the-art dynamic traffic guidance system provides easy access to the city and facilitates parking during major events.
We crossed the city many times in 2004, 2009 and 2010 and never found any difficulty in traffic or in parking. The Old city is located in the ring so it’s very difficult to get lost there.

You can watch my 3 min 13 sec Video Bavaria Heiligenstadt-Nurnberg by car in 2009 HD out of my Youtube channel.

You can watch my 4 min 21 sec Video Nurnberg by car in 2010 HD out of my Youtube channel.

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Hauptbahnhof is is the main trainstation of Nuernberg, right in the centre of town – just walk across the street and you will be at the remains of the medieval townwall at Handwerkshof, an area of nice restaurants and souvenirshops inside of an old court of the former townwall.
There are Lockers for your luggage :
In the station you will find automatic LOCKERS for your luggage, next to the Western exit.
Maximum storage time is 72 hours , for quite a small box you pay 2 euro, for the bigger ones you pay 4 euros for every 24 hours .
There is also an INTERNET-Cafe:
in the lowest underground, 1 hour is 1,50 euros and at this place you will also be able to make cheap telephone-calls to abroad.
For your children and everyone young at heart:
there is also a small-scale train, just put in some money and the trains will start to run (my pics from this tip!).

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Since the opening of a new high-speed railway line between here and Munich there are many more InterCityExpress (ICE) trains serving Nürnberg than there used to be. In fact the fastest way to get from Frankfurt to Munich is now via Nürnberg, not Stuttgart.

Second photo: Here a regional express train is pulling (or rather pushing) out of Crailsheim station, on the way from Stuttgart to Nürnberg. The locomotive pushes in this direction, with the driver of course sitting in a cab at the front end, and then pulls on the way back from Nürnberg to Stuttgart.

Third photo: An InterCityExpress and a regional train at Nürnberg main station.

Nurnberg metro has 3 lines and you could reach almost every place you need with no more than one change. There is also a good network of trams and buses. It is very easy to explore the city. Here you could find information about timetable, prices, etc.

The Altstadt of Nuremberg is fairly compact and walkable and there is not much public transportation within it. Many of the main tourist sights are within a fifteen minute walk or less or each other. There is some variation of elevation, but it is not too bad except for the walk up to the Burg, which is on a hill. Beware that there are cobblestones though. To get to other parts of the city, or around the Altstadt (which is shaped like a circle), simply go outside the ring where there is a large street which will have buses and street cars. Many also run outside of the train station. There is also a subway system in Nuremberg. Except for some bus tickets, you will need to have bought your tickets prior to departure and for the subway, have punched your ticket in a little box. Look for boxes (orange I believe) that say VGN on them to buy tickets; however, these are not at all stops. The train station is most likely the best place to buy these. There are also different types of tickets, including a day pass, which could be useful if you are planning to do much traveling around the city. I found the public transportation to be punctual and safe. Also, I should note that biking is not as widespread in Nuremberg as in some other German cities.

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If you arrive in the city of Nürnberg by plane the airport is an end station on the U2 underground line. The station is directly outside the front of the airport and you can see the steps or escalator down to the platform. If you are not very good with ticket machines like me then go to the information desk inside the airport where you can purchase tickets. In my case I purchased a 7 day ticket which cost 17.70 euros. I had an odd day where I needed to purchase a 90 minute ticket for 1.60 euros. This is where I discovered that unlike Berlin where you stamp the ticket at the start of your journey in Nürnberg the ticket machine does it for you and the clock is then running. I only found this out when I tried to purchase a ticket in advance. The same ticket can be used on all forms of transport. The U2 trains I used were driverless and you can stand at the front of the train where the driver would normally be. There are only 3 subway lines in Nürnberg though booster trains are put on in the central sections to increase capacity. The U2 line will take you to the Hauptbahnhof and city centre. If you wish to change routes on the underground then you can change at the Hauptbahnhof and Plärrer.

This is the website for bus, underground and regional train connections in the Nuremberg region:

www.vgn.de

For long distance train connections look up the Deutsche Bahn (the German train company):
www.bahn.de