Nürnberg (Nuremberg)

Getting Here and Around

Nuremberg is centrally located and well connected, an hour north of Munich and two hours east of Frankfurt by train. Five autobahns meet here: A-3 Düsseldorf-Passau, A-6 Mannheim-Nürnberg, A-9 Potzdam-München, A-73 Coburg-Feucht, and B-8 (four lane near Nürnberg) Würzburg-Regensburg. Most places in the Old Town may be reached on foot.

English-language bus tours of the city are conducted April-October and in December, daily at 9:30, starting at the Mauthalle, Hallplatz 2. The 2½-hour tour costs €15. For more information, call 0911/202-290. An English-language tour on foot through the Old Town is conducted daily May-October at 1; it departs from the tourist-information office on the Hauptmarkt. The tour costs €9 (plus entrance to the Kaiserburg €2). City tours are also conducted in brightly painted trolley buses April-October, daily at one-hour intervals beginning at 10 at the Schöner Brunnen. The cost is €6. For more information call the Nürnberg tourist office.