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Stratford's train station is on the northwestern edge of town, ten minutes' walk from the centre. Now the end of the line, it receives hourly services from Birmingham and frequent trains from Warwick, except on Sundays, when there are only a couple of services all day. Local bus services arrive and depart from the central Bridge Street; National Express services and most other long-distance and regional buses pull into the Riverside station on the east side of the town centre, off Bridgeway.

The tourist office (April-Oct Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm; tel 01789/293127, ) is located a couple of minutes' walk from the bus station by the bridge at the junction of Bridgeway and Bridgefoot. They have oodles of information on local attractions and operate an accommodation-booking service, which is very useful during the height of the summer when rooms can be in very short supply. It also issues bus timetables and sells bus tickets. General tourist information is available from the Guide Friday office in the centre at 14 Rother St (tel 01789/299866), but they basically exist to flog tickets for their bus tours of the town and environs (£8.50, excluding admission to properties). The tourist office will sell you an all-in ticket for all five Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties (£12), or a Three In-Town Shakespeare Property Ticket (£8.50) for the three Trust properties in Stratford - both tickets are also available from each of the sites themselves.