Leaving Frankfurt Airport during layover

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You're free to leave the airport during your layover. Of course you need to pass through the Schengen external border to do so, but as a Brazilian you're allowed visa-free short visits to the Schengen area, and "to pass time until my connecting flight leaves" is a perfectly valid premise for doing so.

Nobody's stopping people who leave the airport to demand proof that they don't have an onwards ticket.

Your hold baggage will likely be checked through to your destination in Brazil, so you won't get to take that with you into town. Though if you want to, you can probably get the check-in agent in Dublin to "short check" it. They're sometimes reluctant to do so, in order not to encourage "hidden-city ticketing", but since there's no reasonable way a combined ticket Dublin-Frankfurt-Brazil can be cheaper than just Dublin-Frankfurt, that's not really a risk with you.

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If you are arriving from Munich (Shengen) you can just walk out of the airport without any further controls or inspections.

Getting to town is quick and painless. The local trains leaves every 15 minutes and it takes about 15 minutes to get to the center of town. See https://www.airwise.com/airports/europe/frankfurt/by-train for instructions.

You could get off at "Konstablerwache" walk leisurely down the Zeil (main shopping drag) to "Hauptwache", make your way past the "Paulskirche" and "Roemer" down to the river. Cross it using the the "Eisener Steg" and head into to "Sachsenhausen". Have some local "Apfelwein" (hard cider) and if you are are really adventurous "Handkaese" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handk%C3%A4se. Walk a bit along the river and come back across to the main station and get back to the airport.

That's about 45 minute of walk time with plenty of shops, restaurant, historical buildings/culture, and museums along the way to tailor to your specific preferences.

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