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China travel facts and local tips, sourced and dated: hours, tickets, booking and pre-trip setup.
Remote server: your requests and data go to chinafootnotes.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http china-footnotes https://chinafootnotes.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_places — Search China Footnotes for sights and neighbourhoods in the Chinese cities it covers. Matches English or Chinese names, aliases, district, tget_place — Read one China Footnotes place by id (from search_places). For a practical question, pass sections:["practical","notices"] and only the fiellist_pretrip_topics — List the China Footnotes "Before you go" topics for foreign visitors preparing a trip to China: when to go, visa and entry, arrival card, paget_pretrip_topic — Get one China Footnotes "Before you go" topic by id: the essentials, a checklist, dated items such as holiday crowd calendars or rule changeget_current_notices — List dated notices in effect on a date (today in Asia/Shanghai unless date is given) for places in China Footnotes, such as holiday traffic Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.