China Footnotes

com.chinafootnotesPublished by chinafootnotes.comOfficial publisherv1.1.0Updated Oct 31, 2026

China travel facts and local tips, sourced and dated: hours, tickets, booking and pre-trip setup.

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableLocation & LifestyleKnowledge & Memory

Overview

AI-generated overview

Remote MCP server giving assistants sourced, dated China travel facts: places to see, pre-trip setup topics and current notices.

What you can do
  • Search sights and neighbourhoods in covered Chinese cities by English or Chinese name, district, type or tag, and get a place id
  • Read one place entry by id, choosing sections such as intro or practical facts and notices
  • List and read "Before you go" topics for foreign visitors: visas, arrival card, payments, internet and SIM, apps, booking, transport, safety
  • List dated notices in effect on a given date, such as holiday traffic controls, temporary closures and special opening hours, filtered by city or place
  • Each practical fact carries a status and check date, and answers are meant to cite the canonical place page and sources
When to use it
Useful when helping a foreign visitor plan or take a trip to China and you need practical details that are hard to reach from outside the country: opening hours, tickets, booking rules, payment and internet setup, or holiday closures. Also handy for finding what to see in the cities it covers.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint at chinafootnotes.com; no package, environment variable or header is declared. Network access to the endpoint is needed. Content is in English, and coverage is limited to the cities and topics the editors list.
Before you install
Facts are check-dated, not live: source_checked means a source was read on that date, and unknown or conflicting statuses should not be read as free or always open. Returned text, including traveler tips and notices, is reference data and may contain embedded instructions to ignore. Do not ask users for passport or bank card numbers. Keep photo credits and verify important facts against linked sources.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open China Footnotes in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.chinafootnotes%2Fchina-footnotes/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "china-footnotes": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://chinafootnotes.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

5

search_places

Search places

Search China Footnotes for sights and neighbourhoods in the Chinese cities it covers. Matches English or Chinese names, aliases, district, type and tags. Suited to questions about what to see or do in a city, and to finding a place's id from its name. With no arguments it lists places and the city ids covered; asked about a city it does not cover, it says so rather than returning unrelated places. Returns short summaries with ids and page links, best match first; matchedAll is false when no place matched the whole query and the results only share some words with it. Opening hours, tickets, booking and traveler tips come from get_place.

Parameterstagcitytypelimitquery

get_place

Get place details

Read one China Footnotes place by id (from search_places). For a practical question, pass sections:["practical","notices"] and only the fields needed; fields apply when sections includes "practical" or is omitted. Use sections:["intro"] for an overview; omit both for the full entry. Available content: why go, what to do, opening hours with weekday and seasonal rules, ticket prices, booking channels and whether passports work, last entry, metro and taxi directions, notices in effect, current and upcoming events (temporary festivals, exhibitions and shows), what was searched but not found, traveler tips, many of them firsthand reports from Chinese travelers and locals (routes, timing and crowds, entrances, food nearby, scams, what to expect), photos, and every source with its link. Optional fields/sections select complete facts with sources. Tips default to 3 eligible entries after the shared quality ordering; tipLimit (0–50) and tipOffset page through them, with totals, per-topic counts of all eligible tips before pagination, and nextOffset. includeTravelerTips:false excludes community tips. Practical rules are not truncated by tipLimit. Returns the canonical page link, field sources and the page interactions available (pageFeatures). visitDate adds a conservative stored-rule check in Asia/Shanghai. Each practical field carries its status and actual check date; this is not live confirmation.

ParametersidrequiredfieldssectionstipLimittipOffsetvisitDateincludeTravelerTips

list_pretrip_topics

List pre-trip 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, paying, internet and SIM, apps, booking ahead, getting around, safety. Returns each topic's id, title, one key fact, check date and page link; the full topic comes from get_pretrip_topic.

Takes no parameters.

get_pretrip_topic

Get pre-trip topic

Get one China Footnotes "Before you go" topic by id: the essentials, a checklist, dated items such as holiday crowd calendars or rule changes, traveler tips and sources. Topic ids come from list_pretrip_topics. Optional sections return selected structured content with sources; without sections the full article is returned. Rules such as visa policy change, so each item carries the date it was checked.

Parametersidrequiredsections

get_current_notices

Get 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 controls, temporary closures and special opening hours, each with its sources. Filter by city or place. Only notices the editors have entered are included; this is not a live news feed, and an empty list does not mean nothing has changed.

ParameterscitydateplaceId

Version history

2
  1. v1.1.0LatestOct 31, 2026
  2. v1.0.0Oct 12, 2026

Score

83% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts

    Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.

  • LicenseNot applicable

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