In Paris, the easiest and most efficient way to travel, is the Metro. Sometimes, though, it's still confusing to decide which line you should be on – and how to get there – to get where you want to go. Fortunately, with a just a little bit of direction, it will no longer be confusing.
Figure out Where You Are It's easy to decide which metro stop you're at, because the signs are over the entrance and also pop up regularly along the walls. For the sake of this article, look at the map, and imagine you're standing in the middle of the huge metro stop, Chatelet, where many of the metro lines meet, allowing you to go almost anywhere in Paris.
Know Where You Want to Go After you know where you are, you simply have to find where you want to go, which is how your map of Paris comes in handy. The Eiffel Tower? Notre Dame? Sacre Coeur? When you look at your map, you will see the little circled M's that mark metro stops spread across the map, and can choose which will get you to your destination. For the purpose of this article, let's imagine you're going to the Eiffel Tower. You will see several metro stops nearby: Trocadero, Ecole militaire and Champs de Mars, Tour Eifel, all on different parts of the tower.
Choose the Stop and the Line Choose which stop you want to go to of the ones you have available. If you decide to go to Trocadero, on the light green line, you will need to take the yellow line at Chatelet to Franklin D. Roosevelt, where it intersects with the light green line, change trains and take that to Trocadero. If you decide to get out at the Ecole Militaire, on the pale purple line, you can take the yellow line, again, to the Concorde stop and change trains to the purple line, which you can follow to the Ecole Militaire.
