Le Mans Station

Le Mans station is a railway station in the Sarthe department, in the Pays de la Loire region. It lies on the route linking Paris Montparnasse station to Brest and offers many regional and national connections.

The station has 8 tracks and 4 central platforms, reached via an underground passage. It has two entrances, one to the north (facing the city centre) and the other to the south (opening onto the Novaxis business district). The station is close to Le Mans city centre. Between trains, you can visit the historic centre, the Cité Plantagenêt, with its cobbled streets, its Gallo-Roman wall and Saint-Julien Cathedral.

Getting to Le Mans station

To get there, you can use tram lines T1, T2 and T3. The station is also well served by urban buses on the Setram network, particularly from the "Gare Sud" stop.

Main destinations from Le Mans station

A variety of services are available here, including TGV INOUI and OUIGO high-speed trains, as well as OUIGO Train Classique and TER trains.

The station offers fast TGV connections to many cities. Paris Montparnasse station has the advantage of being just one hour from the city on a direct TGV INOUI. High-speed connections are also available to Nantes, Angers, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Rennes, Vitré and Laval. From Le Mans, there are many TER services, with journeys to towns such as Caen, Nogent-le-Rotrou, La Ferté-Bernard, Chartres and Versailles.

The bus station is not far from the north entrance of the station. You can take departmental buses on the TIS network (Transports Interurbains de la Sarthe) to reach towns that cannot be reached by train.