Transportation
The easily reachable city of Tours is a popular place for a long vacation as well as a short city break. Tours is just an hour away from Paris by TGV, which makes the city a wonderful base of exploration. You can also get to the city by plane or car.
Get in
By plane
Tours Loire Valley Airport connects the Loire Valley to London Stansted Airport. This link is provided by the Irish airline Ryanair. National connection to Figari on Corsica is available during the summer, too.
By train
The TGV from Paris is the fastest way to get to Tours from the capital and it costs about 20 Euro (one way) and it takes about 1 hour from Paris-Montparnasse railway station. You could also take the normal SNCF train which passes Orleans and Blois too, but it takes about 2 hours depending on which train you take.
By car
Tours is situated at the center of a highway crossroads: the A10 to Paris or Bordeaux, the A85 towards Nantes and Bourges, and the A28 towards Le Mans and the rest of Normandy. The A10 passes between Tours and St Pierre des Corps, from where you can turn off to get to the city center.
Get around
Tours doesn’t have a metro rail system, instead there is a very efficient bus service, the main central stop being Jean Jaures, which is next to the Town Hall, and Rue Nationale, the high street of Tours. A tram is planned to be built in the next few years.