The huge—actually bewilderingly large—train station of Paris-Montparnasse, in the southern part of central Paris (map), serves trains arriving from the west of France (Brittany, Chartres, Versailles, etc) as well as regional routes closer to Paris.

Allow plenty of time to buy your train ticket and find your departure track (voie) at Gare Montparnasse! The station is huge and confusing, with the tracks of station section Montparnasse 3 Vaugirard being nearly half a kilometer southwest of the station façade.

Ticket offices are in differernt places for different sorts of trains (RER, Transilien, TER, SNCF, etc.) and may have waiting lines, and you will have to climb or descend several levels between buying your ticket and finding your train track.

As paper money and credit/debit cards without a visible computer chip (puce) are not accepted in ticketing machines, you may have to wait in line to buy your ticket from a ticket agent, where all forms of payment are accepted.

Better yet, buy your ticket in advance, a day or several days before your travel day. Intercity tickets are

The nearest Métro station, Montparnasse-Bienvenüe, serves Lines 4, 6, 12 and 13.

If you arrive at Gare Montparnasse and want to get your bearings in Paris immediately, consider whisking to the top of the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper, right in front of the station, for the panoramic bird's-eye views of Paris from its 56th floor. More...

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