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Tours Station

All you need to know

Tours station is a railway station located in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is the starting point for many regional services, as well as for journeys to Paris on the high-speed line.

The passenger building has ticket offices and ticket machines. The station stands out for its monumental appearance and its architecture combining stone, iron, cast iron and glass. You can also see four large statues there (the allegories of Bordeaux, Toulouse, Limoges and Nantes). Nearby, you can visit the Jardin de la Préfecture or, 10 minutes' walk away, the Jardin des Prébendes d'Oé, a superb urban park in the centre of Tours listed as a Jardin Remarquable.

Getting to Tours station

You can reach the station on the Fil Bleu urban transport network. Tram line A stops in front of the station, with direct access from its west façade. Around a dozen bus lines also run to the station, stopping at "Gare de Tours" or "Gare Vinci".

Main destinations from Tours station

You can take TGV INOUI trains to Paris, which make the journey in around 1 hour 15 minutes. A large number of destinations are also available with TER. This way you can travel to cities such as Orléans, Nevers, Lyon, Poitiers, Nantes, Chartres, Le Mans, Caen and La Roche-sur-Yon. Shuttles are available to easily reach Saint-Pierre-des-Corps station, 3 kilometres away.

Opposite the station, the bus station offers many coach journeys on the interurban mobility network (Rémi). Connections to Amboise, Bourgueil, Montrichard, Richelieu and Chinon, among others, are available.

  • Opening time (excluding public holidays)

    Sunday : from 5h 45m to 2h 00m and Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday : from 4h 30m to 23h 30m and Friday : from 4h 30m to 2h 00m and Saturday : from 5h 30m to 2h 00m

  • Bank holiday hours

    New Year’s Day - Easter Monday - Labour Day - Victory Day (1945) - Ascension Thursday - Whit Monday - French National Day - Assumption Day - All Saints’ Day - Armistice Day - Christmas : from 5h 45m to 2h 00m

  • Address

    Place du Général Leclerc 37000 TOURS

Transport access

Bus

  • 3a
  • 3b
  • 10
  • 14
  • 19
  • 100
  • 114
  • 117
  • 2
  • 3a
  • 3b
  • 5
  • 10
  • 14
  • 15
  • 19
  • 50
  • 100
  • 110
  • 112
  • 114
  • 117
  • 2
  • 5
  • 15
  • 34
  • 50
  • 118
  • 3
  • 10
  • 11
  • 14
  • 19
  • 114
  • 17

Tramway

  • A

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