Now that you can use your smartphone as your ticket for Métro, bus, tram and funicular rides, physical transit-pass cards are no longer necessary. We used our Navigo transit passes happily for years, but we quickly found it easier to just use our iPhones, which is what we do now.

But if you want a physical pass (or don't have a smartphone), here's how to buy and use a Navigo transit pass for your travel in and around Paris. The pass, either on the Bonjour RATP smartphone app, or a plastic RFID/NFC-card, can be used on the RER or Métro and some Transilien trains in Paris and the Île-de-France.

If you're staying in Paris for more than a few days, or if you visit frequently, you may want to buy perhaps one of these other transit pass fares will work:

Navigo Easy transit card: 2€ (buy the card, add fares to it)

Navigo Jour (1-day transit pass): 12€

Paris Region Airport: 13€ (train or bus)

Navigo Semaine (1-week transit pass): 31.60€

Le Forfait Paris Visite (Tourist transit pass):

—1-Day: 29.90€

—2-Day2: 44.45€

—3-Day3: 62.30€

—5-DayS: 76.25€

Navigo on your Smartphone

Both Android phones and Apple iPhones can use the Bonjour RATP app to buy Paris and Île-de-France transit tickets and passes; and your phone can then act as your ticket or pass: just tap the top-back edge of your phone at the turnstile to enter the system. Your phone uses NFC (Near-Field Communication) to connect with the turnstile, even if your phone isn't switched on.

Navigo Makes It Easy

With your Navigo (NAH-vee-goh) RFID/NFC pass or smartphone, you walk into any RER or Métro station, touch the top-back edge of your phone or the Navigo card to the touchpoint on the turnstile, and breeze right through. On a city bus or tram, you touch it to the symbol on a machine at the door where you board.

Touch it to this symbol...

Navigo Easy

The Navigo Easy is the plastic RFID/NFC card replacement for the traditional paper ticket t+. Pay 2€ for the card itself, then load the Navigo Easy with as many fares as you like.

You can also load Navigo multi-trip passes onto the card, such as the Navigo Jour, good for travel for one entire day.

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