China Footnotes
China travel facts: places, hours, tickets, booking and pre-trip setup for six major cities.
Guides for Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing and Hangzhou. Search attractions and neighborhoods, get opening hours, ticket prices, booking channels, metro directions, visa and payment info, and current notices for travelers planning trips to China.
Try asking Muse: "What are the opening hours and ticket prices for the Yu Garden in Shanghai?"
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Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.chinafootnotes/china-footnotes) · First listed October 28, 2026
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https://chinafootnotes.com/mcpNot in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
Also use it in ChatGPT or Claude
China Footnotes is a remote MCP server, so any assistant that can add a custom connector by link can use it. Same link, same tools.
Add it to ChatGPT
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Open ChatGPT settings
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Turn on developer mode
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Create the connector
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https://chinafootnotes.com/mcpWhat people ask Muse to do
Technical details: safety screening, tools, response time and recent checks
Response time at the last check: 608ms. Worked in 100% of checks over 30 days.
Screening · October 28, 2026
Screened, no issues found
Screening looks for known threats and hidden instructions at the time of the check, and runs again weekly and whenever the tool list changes. It cannot see the server's code, so only connect what you need and review what Muse asks to do. How screening works.
Tools · 5
search_placesSearch the China Footnotes guide for sights and neighbourhoods a first-time foreign visitor might go to. Matches English or Chinese names, aliases, district, type and tags. Suited to questions about what to see or do in a covered city, and to finding a place's id from its name. Cget_placeRead a China Footnotes place by id (from search_places). Prefer sections:["practical","notices"] plus relevant fields for a practical question; use sections:["intro"] for an overview and request the full entry only when needed. Available content: why go, what to do, opening hourslist_pretrip_topicsList the China Footnotes "Before you go" topics for foreign visitors preparing a trip to China: when to go, visa and entry, paying, internet and SIM, apps, booking ahead, getting around, safety. Covers how to prepare for a trip to China. Returns topic ids and one key fact each; dget_pretrip_topicGet 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: when-to-go, visa, arrival-card, payments, internet, apps, book-ahead, getting-around, safety. Optioget_current_noticesList dated notices in effect today (Asia/Shanghai) for places in the China Footnotes guide, such as holiday traffic controls, temporary closures and special opening hours. Only notices the editors have entered are included; this is not a live news feed, and an empty list does notRecent checks
Link
https://chinafootnotes.com/mcpQuestions about China Footnotes in Muse
How do I connect China Footnotes to Muse?
Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use China Footnotes to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://chinafootnotes.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.
Is China Footnotes working right now?
At the last check (October 29, 2026, 11:45 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 608ms. Over the last 7 days it answered 100% of health checks. It is checked every 15 minutes.
Is China Footnotes safe to connect to Muse?
It was screened on October 28, 2026 with the result "screened, no issues found". Screening checks the domain against threat feeds and reads the tools for hidden instructions and requests for passwords or card numbers. It cannot see the server's code, so grant only the access you need.
What can China Footnotes do in Muse?
It exposes 5 tools, including search_places, get_place, list_pretrip_topics, get_pretrip_topic. For example, you could ask Muse: "What are the opening hours and ticket prices for the Yu Garden in Shanghai?"
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