Rapperswil ★ 4.0
Forty minutes by S-Bahn along the lake: Rapperswil's medieval old town, castle, rose gardens and easy lakeside restaurants for a half-day's lunch.
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Editorially verified June 7, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Forty minutes by S-Bahn along the lake: Rapperswil's medieval old town, castle, rose gardens and easy lakeside restaurants for a half-day's lunch.
Two hours east into the canton of Appenzell: hill-country cheese country, Appenzeller and chaeshoernli, dollhouse village, traditional houses and dairies.
Sixty minutes north: one of the most preserved medieval old towns in Switzerland on the Rhine, river-side restaurants, painted facades, easy lunch.
Forty-five minutes south on the IC: the old town, the lake, central-Swiss cooking, and the closest accessible alpine cheese, sausage and wine country.