It's a very good place to start

Where to start your Camino can depend on many factors, and of course will depend on the Camino your are following.

In 2010 when Janey and I walked the Camino Frances we started in Sant Jean Pied de Port.  Being Camino naive we assumed it was the only place to start when walking the Camino Frances. We soon found out this not to be so, but for me I wouldn't have wanted to start anywhere else.

Getting to St Jean was slightly difficult. We took a train from Barcelona to Pamplona. Share a taxi from Pamplona to Roncesvalles -quite by chance another group of walkers were looking for another two pilgrims to join their taxi .. someone looking after us perhaps? From Roncesvalles we had already booked a taxi to the other side of the Pyrenees and into France before leaving.  The journey by taxi from Roncesvalles to St Jean gave us an idea of what we would be doing the following morning.

ST Jean Pied de Port is a beautiful place, and an excellent starting point. It has little cobbled streets, interesting old and beautiful buildings and a comfortable feeling about it.

And of course starting here means we started our Camino with the climb, not easy but rewarding, up over the Pyrenees:

Yes -all in all, in my humble opinion St Jean Pied de Port was a very good place to start.