 There are two railway stations at Frankfurt Airport: one for regional
trains and one for long distance trains.
Frankfurt Airport Regional station at Terminal 1 provides access to the S-Bahn lines S8 and S9 which depart every 15
minutes during the day to Wiesbaden in the west via Rüsselsheim and Mainz and to Hanau in the east via Frankfurt Central
Station, Frankfurt city centre and Offenbach am Main. The journey time to Frankfurt Central Station is 11 minutes, to the
city centre (Hauptwache) 15 minutes. The first S-Bahn trains arrive at 4:28h from Frankfurt and Hanau, and at 4:29h
from Mainz and Wiesbaden; the last ones depart at 1:32h to Frankfurt, at 0:29h to Wiesbaden and at 0:59h to Rüsselsheim.
Regional express trains to other destinations like Saarbrücken in the west, Koblenz down the Rhine valley to the north,
or Würzburg in the east also call at the Regional Railway Station, as do some long distance trains, especially at night
when the Long Distance Railway Station is closed.
Frankfurt Airport long-distance station was opened in 1999. It is the end point of the newly-built Cologne-Frankfurt
high-speed rail line, which links southern Germany to the Rhein-Ruhr metropolitan area, the Netherlands and Belgium via
Cologne at speeds up to 300 km/h (190 mph). All ICE trains between Cologne and southern Germany stop at Frankfurt Airport,
taking slightly less than an hour from Cologne. About 10 trains per hour depart in all directions.
The station is squeezed in between the A3 and the four-lane Bundesstraße B43, linked to Terminal 1 by a building that
bridges the Autobahn. Arriving railway passengers can check in right at the train station for about 60 airlines.
Frankfurt Airport is located in the Frankfurt City Forest and directly connected to a Autobahn intersection called
Frankfurter Kreuz where the A3 and A5 meet. It takes a 10-15 minutes ride by car or taxi to get to Frankfurt Central Station
or the city centre. A taxi ride costs approximately € 25 or slightly more.
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