How do I get to Inria Headquarters?

Changed on 04/12/2025

Find below all the location details and practical information on how to get to Headquarters.

By public transport

From Orly airport (ORY)

  • Take the shuttle Orlyval - Direction Antony to Antony
  • Correspondence to Antony
  • Take the RER B - Direction Saint Rémy-lès-Chevreuse to the Massy Palaiseau train station
  • Change at Massy Palaiseau Station
  • Take the RER C - Direction Gare de Versailles Chantiers Station to Gare de Versailles Chantiers
  • Reach Inria Rocquencourt  (stop 'Coeur de Bourg') from Versailles by urban buses

From Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG)

  • Take the RER B - Direction Saint Rémy-Les-Chevreuse until Denfert-Rochereau
  • Change at Denfert- Rochereau RER station
  • Take metro line 6 - Direction Charles-de-Gaulle, Étoile
  • Stop Montparnasse-Bienvenue
  • Change at Gare Montparnasse train Station
  • Take a suburban train to Versailles Chantiers (Direction Chartres, Dreux, Mantes la Jolie, Plaisir Grignon, Rambouillet).
  • Reach Inria Rocquencourt (stop 'Coeur de Bourg') from Versailles by urban buses

Or

  • Take the RER B - Direction Saint Remy-Les-Chevreuses until Saint Michel Notre-Dame
  • Change at Saint Michel Notre-Dame
  • Take the RER C - Direction Saint Quentin-En-Yvelines station
  • Stop Gare de Versailles-Chantiers
  • Reach Inria Rocquencourt (stop 'Coeur de Bourg') from Versailles by urban buses

From Paris, Gare St-Lazare

  • Take the train to  "Versailles-Rive Droite".

From Paris, Gare Montparnasse

  • Take the train to "Versailles-Chantiers".

By RER A  to  "St Germain en Laye", "Poissy" or "Cergy". Chage at "Grande Arche de La Défense" and take the train (SNCF) to "Versailles-Rive Droite".
By RER C  to "Versailles-Rive Gauche" ou pour "Versailles-Chantiers".

It is possible to reach Inria (stop 'Coeur de Bourg') by urban buses from Versailles.

By car

From Paris

  • Take "l'autoroute de Normandie" (A13 direction "Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Rouen").
  • Then take exit no. 6, direction  "N186, St-Germain-en-Laye, Marly-le-Roi, Le Chesnay, Versailles – Notre Dame".
  • Turn right towards "D186, Le Chesnay, Versailles – Notre Dame".
  • Continue for 350 meters, towards "D186 (Route de Versailles)".
  • Then turn right and join the D307.
  • Inria is 250 m on the right, after a BP petrol station.

The distance from Paris/periphery to the institute is about 20 km.

OpenStreetMap access map of Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt site