Getting around Tours

All the practical information you need to get around Tours and the surrounding area. Just 1 hour from Paris, Tours is a very accessible city where you can experience “everything on foot”.

Coming by train, car or plane

Tours, the epicenter of France’s major metropolises, is easy to reach with :

2 TGV stations

Tours center and Saint-Pierre-des-Corps 5 minutes from Tours

3 freeways

A10 (Paris and Bordeaux), A85 (Nantes and Bourges) and A28 (Rouen)

1 international airport

20 mn from Tours downtown

Coming by train

  • 2 TGV stations
  • 25 daily TGV connections between Paris Montparnasse and Tours in 1 hour
  • Numerous connections between Paris Austerlitz and Tours in 2 hours
  • Direct TGV services to Massy (Orly airport), Marne-la-Vallée (Disneyland) and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.

Links with :

  • Bordeaux – 2h18
  • Reims – 3h
  • Lille – 3h00
  • Metz / Nancy – 3h30
  • Brussels – 3h40
  • Lyon – 4h
  • Strasbourg – 5h
  • London – 6h
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Coming by car

Touraine is served by three freeways:

  • The A10 (Paris and Bordeaux),
  • A28 (Rouen)
  • A85 (Nantes and Bourges)

5 national roads pass through Tours: RN 10, RN 138, RN 152, RN 76, RN 143.

Travel time from major metropolitan cities :

  • Nantes – Tours: 2h30
  • Paris – Tours: 2h40
  • Rennes – Tours: 2h45
  • Bordeaux – Tours: 3h50
  • Lyon – Tours: 4h50
  • Lille – Tours: 5h00

Air travel

Tours Val de Loire International Airport

  • 10 minutes from downtown,
  • Regular services to London Stansted, Porto, Marrakech and Marseille.
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Roissy Charles de Gaulle International Airport

  • Accessible by TGV direct from Tours Centre station,
  • 8 daily trains.
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Getting around Tours

A city on foot

An all-cycling metropolis

1 dense, high-performance streetcar + bus network

Getting around on foot

In Tours, you can organize your event “all on foot”! The train station faces the Palais des Congrès. Numerous venues for gala evenings are nearby. Just a few minutes away, Old Tours offers a wide choice of places to lunch or stroll. And 1,400 hotel rooms are located within 5 and 15 minutes’ walk of the Palais des Congrès.

By bike

Tours and the metropolitan area are easily accessible by bike.

The cycling network is continuing to develop to make everyday journeys more fluid:

  • 7 routes covering 110 km will be completed by 2026,
  • By 2030, 13 cycle routes will have been completed, covering a total of 350 km throughout the metropolis.

Self-service bicycles are available in 19 communes of the Métropole:

  • 500 classic bikes
  • 1,100 two-seater electric-assist bicycles
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By bus and streetcar

By bus and streetcar with the Fil Bleu network

  • Fil Bleu, the unique network of the Tours metropolitan area, makes it easy to get around by streetcar and bus 7 days a week,
  • 1 streetcar line and 1 high-level service line cross the city from north to south between 5 a.m. and 0.30 a.m. on weekdays, with high frequency between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. (every 6 to 10 minutes),
  • Night services are provided, with a service for night owls from Thursday to Saturday,
  • 24 or 48-hour and group packages are available to simplify travel.
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