 Runkel station and Arfurt (Lahn) station both lie within the municipality on the Lahn Valley Railway (Koblenz-Limburg-Runkel-Wetzlar-Gießen) at which only regional trains stop.The town lies within the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund area.In Runkel is found the "Johann-Christian-Senckenberg-Schule".