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Buy train ticket to Nuremberg at Munich Airport

I'm arriving into Munich at about 10 am on Thursday May 16th. We are a group of three: myself (age 41), and my parents (age 70), who are physically very capable but my father has to walk pretty slowly for various reasons. We are taking the train directly to Nuremberg that day. I'm going to wait to buy our tickets until we arrive and clear immigration/etc. I'm planning to buy the tickets from the DB machines in the airport. I've done a lot of reading on German train travel and looked through prior posts but I do still have a question:

I know we take the S-bahn to Munich Hbf and then we want to take a high speed train to Nuremberg from there. (I know the regional trains are cheaper but I want to get there faster and be able to reserve seats for us.) Should/can I buy both tickets together from the machines as a single ticket? I'm worried about having enough transfer time once we are at Munich Hbf. Do the machines allow you to modify the connection time like the bahn.de website does? Or should I buy a separate s-bahn ticket and then use the DB app on my phone (or use the machines) to separately choose the train to nuremberg that we want?

I am going to purchase some other tickets ahead for our trip so I will have a DB account but I don't want to have to rely on the DB app immediately upon arrival to do the purchase while also getting my bearings. I have navigated other European train systems previously but this is my first time to Germany. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you.

Posted by
21162 posts

You can buy just one set of tickets with the app, Munich Airport to Nuremberg. The first logical connection is at 11:24, so you should have plenty of time to buy with the app. Be sure to include seat reservation for the ICE connection at 4.90 EUR per person.

Just follow the signs to the train station after you get your luggage.

Posted by
2502 posts

Tickets are for a route, not a train. So if you buy a ticket MUC - Nuremberg, and are worried about the connection in Hbf you just take an earlier S-Bahn from the airport. You are not stuck to only taking the trains you selected during purchase. However you will of course only have reserved seats on the ICE service that you reserved seats on...

Posted by
1488 posts

You can also just buy the tickets using the DB app on your phone. That is faster than standing around to get a ticket at the machine. Or, in Munich HBF you can go to the information window, and they can get you the ticket.