GAJA (가자) - Korea Travel & Measured Visits MCP Server

GAJA is a production remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing verified travel destinations and optimized itineraries across 250+ administrative districts in South Korea, powered by real-world telecommunication and navigation visit big data.

🌟 Key Features

• Real-World Measured Big Data: Uses actual mobile carrier roaming and navigation movement volumes from the Korea Tourism Organization (TourAPI) and TMAP Big Data, eliminating hallucinations.

• Full Regional Coverage: 250+ cities, counties, and districts across South Korea (Seoul, Gangwon, Jeju, Busan, Inje, etc.).

• Multi-day Course Generator: Automatically generates 1-day to 8-day structured itineraries with morning/lunch/afternoon/dinner/lodging schedules and live weather forecasts.

• Foreign Visitor Surge Detection: Identifies rapidly emerging travel spots popular among inbound foreign tourists by nationality.

• Production-Ready & High Performance: Deployed over HTTP with Streamable-HTTP (stateless_http=True), payload optimized under 16KB for compatibility with all MCP clients.

Related MCP server: seoul-essentials

📡 Live Remote MCP Endpoints

🛠️ Provided Tools

1. gaja_recommend_trending_places

• Description: Recommends top trending travel destinations in South Korea based on statistically verified mobile visit counts.

• Parameters:

  • limit (integer, optional): Maximum number of destinations to return (default: 5, max: 20).

  • category (string, optional): Travel category filter (nature, culture, leisure, food).

2. gaja_recommend_places

• Description: Generates an optimized, day-by-day travel itinerary with verified attractions, restaurants, and lodgings for any Korean district.

• Parameters:

  • query (string, required): Destination name (e.g. 인제군, 강릉시, 제주도, Inje, Gangneung).

  • days (integer, optional): Duration in days (1 to 8, default: 2).

  • companion (string, optional): Travel companion type (solo, couple, family, friends).

3. gaja_get_foreign_surge

• Description: Analyzes regional districts experiencing a rapid surge in inbound foreign visitors compared to the previous period.

• Parameters:

  • top_n (integer, optional): Number of surging districts to return (default: 5).

  • nationality (string, optional): Filter by visitor nationality (e.g., ALL, JP, CN, US).

4. gaja_get_data_freshness

• Description: Returns the statistical baseline date, aggregation window, data provider provenance, and sample size of the underlying datasets.

🚀 Client Configuration

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gaja": {
      "url": "https://gaja.mocean.kr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Note: For Claude Desktop versions supporting remote HTTP MCP, simply add the URL above.

Cursor / Windsurf

Add a new MCP server in settings:

• Type: command (with mcp-proxy) or direct streamable-http / sse

• URL: https://gaja.mocean.kr/mcp

Kakao PlayMCP

GAJA is registered on Kakao PlayMCP (gaja identifier) with zero-authentication remote access:

• Endpoint: https://gaja.mocean.kr/mcp

📊 Data Reliability & Provenance

Every recommendation returned by GAJA includes a PROVENANCE verification tag linking back to official government and telecom datasets:

• Korea Tourism Organization TourAPI 4.0

• TMAP Big Data Navigation Destination Index

• Korea Meteorological Administration Realtime Forecast

📄 License

This MCP server metadata and client integration specifications are licensed under the MIT License. Data sources comply with public data licenses (KOGL Type 1).