China Footnotes

Search places

search_places

Read-onlyIdempotent

Search 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. Coverage today: Shanghai (50 places), Beijing (20 places), Xi’an (10 places), Chengdu (12 places), Chongqing (10 places), Hangzhou (10 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.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`tag`	No	Tag, e.g. free, paid, rainy-day, indoor, night-view, family, history, art, booking-required, closed-mon, day-trip.
`city`	No	City id. Covered: shanghai, beijing, xian, chengdu, chongqing, hangzhou.
`type`	No	Place type.
`limit`	No	Maximum places to return (default 10).
`query`	No	Words to match, e.g. "Yu Garden", "豫园", "art museum", "night view". Leave empty to list places.

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`total`	Yes
`cities`	No
`places`	Yes
`matchedAll`	Yes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed1 schema field changedOct 13, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / type / enum

Previous value: -[
-  "museum",
-  "open_district",
-  "park",
-  "water_town",
-  "temple",
-  "observation_deck",
-  "classical_garden",
-  "ticketed_attraction"
-]New value: +[
+  "open_district",
+  "water_town",
+  "museum",
+  "observation_deck",
+  "ticketed_attraction",
+  "classical_garden",
+  "park",
+  "temple"
+]

First observedOct 12, 2026

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