Rapperswil is located in the Zürich metropolitan area and served by its suburban trains Zürich S-Bahn. The S5, S7 and S15 lines all offer 2 trains/hour, with S5 and S15 taking 36 min from Zürich city centre and S7 40 min. Several communter trains from Zurich, e.g S5, 15, 40 and 7, pass through or terminate in Rapperswil. All connections are listed on the website of the public traffic ZVV (http://www.zvv.ch/en/). There are trains to Rapperswil from Lucerne and Romanshorn.
A very scenic way of travelling to Rapperswil is with the steamship boats of the Lake Zurich navigation company (http://www.zsg.ch/index.p...). The ships don't travel in the winter.
