List of SNCF Boutiques

If you are in Paris and need to buy a train ticket for your onward journey or for exploring France then there are a number of options. You can buy train tickets at any of the major train stations although these can often be reasonably busy and have long lines. There are also the yellow machines - although these are sometimes not the easiest to use and you need a chip credit card to use them (which you won't find out until you get to the end of your process and its time to pay).

A nicer option is the SNCF Boutique. The SNCF Boutiques are scattered all around Paris and will sell you train tickets to anywhere. It's not the place to buy your Metro or RER tickets, but if you want to head out of Paris then they can help you.

Often there will be someone who speaks English which can be helpful, but if you are intimidated by French, you can write down what you want beforehand. They will need to know where you want to depart from ("Depart") where you want to go to ("Arrivee"), the date you want to leave ("Aller le" or "date"), the time ("a partier de" or "temps"), and the number of people travelling ("Nombre de Passengers"). If you want to just go one way, you want "Aller Simple" if its return you will need "Aller-Retour" and provide the above information for your return journey.

Here is a list of SNCF boutiques in Paris. The postcode tells you which one is closest to you - 75 is Paris, the last two digets tell you which arrondisement it is in (ie 75016 is in the 16th). Most are open Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm and many are open on Saturdays. Most are closed Sundays.

Paris : Boutique SNCF - Forum des Halles Niveau -4 salle d'échange (75001)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 18 rue du Pont Neuf PARIS (75001)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 2 rue de Turenne PARIS (75004)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 54 Bd St Michel PARIS (75005)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 17, rue Littré PARIS (75006)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 79, rue de Rennes PARIS (75006)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 80, rue St Dominique PARIS (75007)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 229, rue du Fbg St-Honoré PARIS (75008)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 2 rue Chauveau-Lagarde PARIS (75008)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 53, rue de la Chaussée d'Antin PARIS (75009)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 24 rue Poissonnière PARIS (75009)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 32, 34 rue Joubert PARIS (75009)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 71-73, Boulevard Magenta PARIS (75010)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 5 rue de Lyon PARIS (75012)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 30, avenue d'Italie PARIS (75013)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 105, rue de Tolbiac PARIS (75013)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 3 avenue du Général Leclerc PARIS (75014)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 68 avenue du Maine PARIS (75014)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 1 rue Balard PARIS (75015)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 33 rue du Commerce 75015 PARIS (75015)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 202, rue de la Convention PARIS (75015)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 19 rue de Passy PARIS (75016)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 76, rue d'Auteuil PARIS (75016)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 82,avenue de la Grande Armée (75017)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 116 Bd Péreire PARIS (75017)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 27 rue Lepic PARIS (75018)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 133, rue Ordener PARIS (75018)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 110, rue de Belleville PARIS (75019)
Paris : Boutique SNCF - 127, avenue Simon Bolivar PARIS (75019)


An interactive map, only in French, showing everywhere you can buy train tickets is available at the SNCF website.

For places to go and ideas for day trips from Paris, see www.beyond-paris.com.