Some great day trips include:
- a trip to Wiesbaden (25 minutes via subway), the posh spa/casino town or Mainz (20 minutes via subway) with a lovely old town and the world-famous Gutenberg Museum
- a trip to the moutainous Taunus region with many lovely spa towns and castle ruins (Bad Homburg the biggest one with the great Taunus Therme; Kronberg; Königstein, Hofheim, as well as an open-air zoo, the Opel Zoo); all towns are within a 15 minute reach via subway
- a trip to the Rhein (45 minutes) via train ride to Rüdesheim (extremely touristy) and Bingen, take a boat trip on the river, visit the Loreley or a train ride along the UNESCO wolrd heritage sight Rhine valley to Koblenz
- a trip to the wine country Rheingau along the Bundesstrasse with must-see towns such as Eltville and Johannisberg, as well as castles such as Kloster Eberbach and Schloss Vollrads (all with excellent restaurants); it is highly recommended to rent a car (25 minutes to Eltville)
- a day trip to Heidelberg (a one-way tour takes one hour via train)
- a day trip to Baden-Baden (northern rim of the Black Forest), which takes about 70 minutes by train
- a train ride to the beautiful Lahn towns of Marburg (student town), Limburg (historical cathedral city) and Butzbach (Fachwerk); about 75 minutes via train
- a train trip to Stuttgart and visit Mercedes Museum ( new building ); which takes about an hour with the ICE train
- a train ride to Würzburg with the UNECSO World Heritage Site Residenz and a nice student town atmsphere (about 45minutes via train); perhaps even a side excursion to walled-town of Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber (2.5 hour train ride with many stops)
