Mobility for all

Some hints for the use of public transport in Nuremberg

1. Available transportation
2. Tickets
3. Mobility for all
4. Park & Ride
5. KombiTickets (combined tickets)
6. Reduced entrance fees with ticket

1. Available transportation
Six tramway-lines, two subway-lines and 47 bus-lines are operating in Nuremberg. Mondays through to Sundays between 5 am and long after midnight.

In addition 13 nightly buses, the NightLiners, take night owls safely home on weekends and nights before holidays - from 1 to 4 am leaving every full hour from Nuremberg central station.

Here you can retrieve your individual timetable .

2. Tickets
VAG is a partner in the public transport association of Greater Nuremberg (VGN). Tickets are valid for busses, trams, subways, suburban fast trains and regional trains in the area covered by the association.

The transport network within the VGN-area is divided into zones. To calculate your individual fare you have to look up the zones and part-zones you intend to cross on the fare zone map and count them. The total number determines your fare zone. In the fare-table you can then find the price of the respective ticket.

For rides within Nuremberg, Fürth and Stein fare-zone A applies (zones 100/200).
There is a special short haul tariff (fare zone K) for short-distance rides, usually two or three stops. If you buy your ticket at a ticket-machine, you`ll find the fare zone for your destination there.

In Nuremberg, short haul tariff is only available with single- and strip-tickets. In Fürth and Erlangen the short haul tariff applies universally.

Tickets overview
We offer suitable tickets for all kinds of purposes, depending on how long you want to stay in Nuremberg.

For day trips:

• Single ticket
  

If you only want to ride one-way once, then a single ticket (adults 2,40 EUR, children 1,10 EUR) is the right choice. It remains valid for 90 minutes for a ride in one direction. You may change at stops or interrupt your ride as you please, but round-trips or return-rides are excluded.
Date and time of issue are being printed on single tickets at purchase - they are valid immediately. So please don`t buy them ahead.

* DayTicket Solo
For only 4,80 EUR per day single persons in Nuremberg, Fürth and Stein are mobile all day and allowed any number of rides.

Our "special": If you buy your ticket on a Saturday, we`ll add the Sunday for free. Meaning you can travel the whole weekend without paying a cent more.

* DayTicket Plus
If the whole family is on the move, it`s time for a DayTicket Plus.
It is valid for two adults and up to four children (under 18 years) for a day or a whole weekend!
The DayTicket Plus for Zone 2, valid in Nuremberg, Fürth and Stein only costs 8,00 EUR.

Two hints:
DayTickets Solo & Plus are valid immediately when you buy them at a ticket-machine. Date and time of issue are printed on, so don`t buy these tickets ahead.

DayTickets are are not 24-hour-tickets!

For a longer stay:

• Nürnberg Card+Fürth
  

With this pass visitors who stay overnight in Nuremberg or Fürth can visit all museums and places of interest for free and use public transport as often as they like for two days. Nürnberg Card+Fürth costs 21 EUR, children up to twelve years travel free if accompanied by one parent.

You can obtain a Nürnberg Card+Fürth at tourist informations, in many hotels and at the camping ground.

* Hotel ticket
Many hotels provide VGN-hotel-tickets for 6,10 EUR for their guests. They are valid for two successive days and until 3 am of the day after last.
VGN-hotel-tickets entitle one person to any number of rides within the area of validity.
Just ask at the reception of your hotel!

* Happy-Weekend-Ticket (Schönes-Wochenede-Ticket) and Bavaria-Ticket (Bayern-Ticket)
You have arrived by train in Nuremberg with a Happy-Weekend-Ticket or Bavaria-Ticket? Then you can use busses and trains within Nuremberg without any extra cost!

* City-Ticket
Most comfortable: If you own a BahnCard 25, BahnCard 50 or BahnCard 100 (issued by German Railways) you can use your reduced intercity ticket to travel on to your final destination within Nuremberg by bus, tramway or subway without extra cost.

Please note: The "city" option is only included in intercity tickets with BahnCard discount and can be identified by the supplement "+ City" following the name of the destination (for example "Nürnberg + City").

* Ride without charge with your plane ticket
Many plane tickets already include your fare to and from Nuremberg Airport on the day of departure respectively arrival; please mind the annotations on the supplement of your air ticket.

More types of tickets may be found here:
Tickets/types of tickets

Where to get what?
Tickets are available in VAG service offices, numerous privat points-of-sale, the contact-points of NürnbergMOBIL and at the tourist information in the central railway station of Nuremberg.
Ticket-machines can be found at all subway stations, all tramway stops and in the train stations of German Railways (DB AG).

3. Mobility for all
We`ve compiled some special informations for disabled persons to facilitate the use of busses and trains.
How to travel on from the airport or Nuremberg central station? Which museums can also be visited with a wheelchair?
Click here to find out more.

4. Park&Ride
You have come to Nuremberg by car? Just park it at one of our free-of-charge Park+Ride facilities. No more inconveniences trying to find a parking space in the city center.

5. KombiTickets (combined tickets)
If you want to go to the opera in Nuremberg, to the theatre, a concert or a sporting event and your respective admission ticket displays the notice "Fahren mit der Eintrittskarte" (ride with your ticket) it is automatically valid as your return ticket to the event you`ve booked for.

6. Reduced entry with your ticket
Many attractive places of interest in Nuremberg can not only be reached quickly and comfortably by bus or train, often you also only have to pay a reduced entry-fee when you show your ticket:

• Nürnberger Tiergarten (Nuremberg Zoo)
  
• Albrecht-Dürer-Haus (Albrecht Dürer`s house)
  
• DB-Museum (German Railway Museum)
  
• Germanische Nationalmuseum (Germanic National Museum)
  
• Historische Lochgefängnisse (Medieval Dungeons)
  
• Historischer Kunstbunker im Burgberg (World War II Art Bunker)
  
• Museum für Kommunikation (Communication Museum)
  
• Museum Industriekultur (Museum Industrial Culture)
  
• Museum Tucherschloss mit Hirsvogelsaal (Museum Tucher Mansion)
  
• Spielzeugmuseum (Toy Museum)
  
• Stadtmuseum Fembohaus (Fembohouse City Museum)
  
• Frankenalb Therme Hersbruck (Thermal Bath Frankenalb)
  
• Erlebnisschifffahrt Brombachsee (Boat Cruises Brombachsee)
  
• Altmühltherme Treuchtlingen (Thermal Spa Almühltal)
  
• Hundshaupten - Wildgehege (Hundshaupten - game reserve)
  
• Hundshaupten - Schloss (Hundshaupten - Castle)
  
• Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn (Castle Thurn theme park)
  
• Solnhofen - Die Welt in Stein (Solnhofen - The World in Stone; famous archeaopteryx location)
  
• Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim (Franconian open air museum)
  

Any more questions?
You can reach us around the clock at the VAG-Service-Phone No. 0911/283-4646.

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