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Küssnacht
Municipality in Schwyz canton, Switzerland

Küssnacht

Küssnacht am Rigi is a village, municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in central Switzerland.

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The municipality consists of the three villages Küssnacht, Immensee, and Merlischachen, the hamlet Haltikon, the industrial area Fänn, and the alp Seeboden. It is situated at the north shore of Lake Lucerne and at the south shore of Lake Zug below mount Rigi.

Get in

Getting to Küssnacht

There are trains every half hour that connect Küssnacht with Lucerne, Goldau and St. Gallen. From Lucerne you have connections to almost every major city in Switzerland. Goldau offers trains to Ticino, the Italian part of Switzerland and also has an hourly direct train to Milan

See

Worth seeing

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    Hohle Gasse

    22 takes you there in 5 minutes from the train station).

Do

Things to do

Seebodenalp (Seeboden), Grepperstrasse 43 (take bus Nr. 2 to the "Seilbahn" stop which is the bottom station of the cable car),. Seeboden is an area halfway up Mount Rigi that has lots of meadows, a small lake and is the locals favourite recreation area in town, there are a couple shorter hiking trails that are not very steep and only take about an hour, take the small cable car up the hill and walk to one of the…

Eat

Where to eat

If you're on a budget there are a couple kebab stores in the centre of town that serve the usual stuff. Otherwise restaurants are, as always in Switzerland, pretty expensive.

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    Gasthaus Engel
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    Rössli

    Unterdorfstrasse 5, info@roessli-kuessnacht.ch.

How locals move

Getting around Küssnacht the local way

  • Get inRigi rises up from the "Lucerne Riviera" on the eastern coast of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstattersee), so the most scenic way to get in from or via Lucerne is by ferry, which run from Lucerne Bahnhofquai (right next to the train station) roughly hourly.
  • Get inThere are two primary gateways: Ferry to Vitznau (1 hour), then boarding the Rigi Railway up to Rigi Kaltbad (15 min) or Rigi Kulm.
  • Get inWhile the ferry ride from Lucerne to Vitznau is about 20 min longer than to Weggis, the Vitznau ferry and rail stations are immediately next to each other and schedules are synchronized, making this the easier option.
  • Get inFerry to Weggis (40 min), then walking about 15 min uphill to the Weggis-Rigi Kaltbad cable car (every 30 min).
  • Get inRigi Railways tickets are valid for both train and cable car, which makes going up by train and down by cable car a popular combo.
  • Get inFrom Küssnacht there is a cable car to Rigi Seebodenalp (1020m), which has a small ski resort but is not directly connected to any other facilities on the mountain.

From Wikivoyage: Rigi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Simon Koopmann (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.