Visit the website for SBB or the Swiss Federal Railway. Here you will find an online booking service as well as information on ticket purchase and rail passes for travel in Switzerland.
Book a railpass for economical travel between Switzerland and Germany by train. These passes are available through a cooperative between Swiss, German and Austrian rail and may be purchased before you arrive in Europe.
Travel by the InterCity Express train directly to Frankfurt from Interlaken Ost train station (or Interlaken East). This train departs once daily and travels through Bern before arriving in Frankfurt about 5 hours later.
Book travel to Basel on an InterCity train from Interlaken and transfer to an ICE train to Frankfurt. This journey with 1 train connection will take a little over 5 hours. You typically have 30 minutes or less to make your connecting train, which departs from another platform in Basel's SSB station south of the town's center.
Board your train at Interlaken Ost, the larger of the 2 train stations in Interlaken. The majority of local and regional trains depart from this busy station so arrive early to ensure that you make it to your train on time.
Enjoy a snack or even a full meal aboard the ICE from Interlaken to Frankfurt. This modern, high-speed train offers at-seat meal service to its first class passengers.
Disembark from your ICE train at Frankfurt's airport train station or Flughafen Fernbahnhof if you will be traveling elsewhere by air. You might also find this station to be the most easy to navigate of Frankfurt's 3 main train stations, providing further connections throughout Europe by rail.
Get off the train at Frankfurt's main train station or Hauptbahnhof, situated in the center of town to find easy connections to destinations throughout the city. This station has been in operation since the late 19th century and sees the most passenger volume of any train station in Europe.
