Traveling from Venice to Frankfurt and then connecting to go home to Canada, but we have have a 5 hour layover in Frankfurt airport. It was during the day, so I left the airport to explore the city.You would probably not want to drag your luggage all over Frankfurt. After you exit from immigrations there should be a baggage storage service that will look after your luggage for you for a fee. I'm not sure if they have lockers now (or if they will be large enough). The best option, of course, is if you can leave the luggage with the airline, but because I was switching between two different airlines, they made me retrieve my luggage and check it in again with the second airline, and they wouldn't let me check it in until less than 4 hours before departure. You may want to check with the staff about that, and the location of lockers / baggage storage service.From the airport, there are frequent trains which bring you within 15 minutes into Frankfurt city center. There, you find a lot of interesting museums,hop on the subway at the airport, you can take the s-bahn (public transportation) no. 8 or 9 to frankfurt, get off at the "hauptwache" station (about 20 minutes train ride) and either do some shopping at the "zeil" (main shopping mile) or walk down to the river main, and pass the "römerberg", with plenty of restaurants on the way - i wud recommend the "steinernes haus" near the römerberg.
The airport is a sucko place to be for any amount of time. Period.
Don't be afraid to take the S-Bahn from the basement level of the terminal to Mainz or Wiesbaden. Both are only 20-25 minutes away on the comuter train. Then a walk will be good for you.
I, personally, would go to Mainz and find the Käsebrochen and Pizzabrochen kiosk just outside the Hauptbahnhoff.
The trains run every 20 minutes or so. Five hours is way too much time for the FRA terminal. And it's even plenty of time for entering Germany, buying a RT rail Fahrfarten, the short train rides, a walk, a snack, and exit formalities! You'll be glad that you did it.
remember to leave plenty of time to get back
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