By ship
Ãrøskøbing
By ship
Svendborg harbour (http://svendborg-havn.dk/) is open to both leisure sailors and commercial ferry traffic, routes out of Svendborg goes to Ãrøskøbing on Ãrø and to serveral small islands in the South Funen archipelago. All ferries depart from the ferry terminal at Havnepladsen square.
Svendborg is reachable by highway route 9, which branches of the main highway E20 across Funen south of Odense, it's about a 25 minute drive. Though the Fynbus' (http://www.fynbus.dk) regional bus lines; 121, 162 and 163 mainly uses local roads and take about 1½ hours to do the trip. Trains (http://www.dsb.dk) are faster and the locals prefered choice, they take 42 minutes from Odense. If you are travelling from Copenhagen, you might want to consider switching to a bus in Nyborg instead, as this might be faster, depending on how long the stop over is.