How to reach ENS Lyon

If you arrive by plane at the Lyon Saint Exupéry airport, take the tramway "RhôneExpress" to the city from the airport train station. In the city it stops at the railway station "La Part Dieu". There is a tram every 15 mn. It reaches the city in 30mn. You can buy the ticket inside the tram.

Coming to Lyon by train, the simplest is to stop at "La Part Dieu" station.

From the train station La Part Dieu, to reach ENS you should take the metro line B direction "Gerland" and stop at the stop "Debourg" (last before the end of the metro line).
Take the exit with is on the FRONT side of the train (the exit on the rear side is marked ENS, but it leads to the other site of Ecole Normale Superieure, for Literature and Humanities, not ENS Sciences).
When you leave the metro station, walk on the side walk in the same direction until the first cross road (traffic light). Take the street to the right (called rue Challemel-Lacour), and then it is straight. You cross a street and a small square (called Place des Pavillons) and keeping the same direction you enter a pedestrian street called "Allée d'Italie", in which you will find ENS, after a small square with a fountain in the center (see the map below).
From the train station the metro needs less than 10mn to reach the station Debourg, and from the station, it is about a 7-8 mn walk to reach ENS.
When you arrive at ENS take the entrance of the left side of Allée d'Italie, which is the main entrance. The entrance is locked but the person at the entrance desk can unlock the door for you if you knock at the door. If you arrive late, or if the person at the entrance desk does not see you, you may have to call the number indicated at the door with the interphone which is at the entrance door.