Bamberg as a mid-day stop?

The main attractions listed in Wikipedia (Dom, Alte Hofhaltung, Kloster Michelsberg etc.) keep you busy half a day easily. Lockers are opposite track #1.

Thanks! We did a similar flying visit to Wurzburg on our way to Frankfurt on a prior trip.

The best day trip guides I know of are written by Earl Steinbicker. Here is his Bamberg guide. You probably won't see it all.

The TI office issues an "i-tour".

Save the walk from the station into the old town by catching a bus. Scroll down and zoom in on the bus route network map at this page. There are maybe 6 bus lines (identified by color and number) that will get you to the ZOB (central bus station) where you will be closer to most places of interest.

Sample a Rauchbier (smoked beer). This is a famous specialty of the city, and despite intermittent and not particularly aggressive searching over four years of living in Germany, I never found it available anywhere else in the country except Bamberg.