Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data MCP Server

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answering

Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Read-only travel data for every municipality in Japan, from bokenjapan.com

Uptime history 17 hours of history

17 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

61 of 61 checks

Tools

read from the server

152 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

listing

get_listing

One listing by id (format <prefecture>/<town>/<section>/<slug>, as returned by search_places or get_town), with all published facts.

places

search_places

Search Boken Japan listings (sights, things to do, places to eat, places to stay, day-to-day) by name or keyword, optionally within a prefecture and/or town and by category. Returns facts with the bokenjapan.com page, source URL, town access, checked booking links (stays) and last_verified.

town

get_town

Overview of one Boken Japan town (municipality): names EN/JA, coordinates, access (nearest station, car needed), official links, address and phone of the town office, listing counts by type, section pages, sample listings and stays with checked booking links.

towns

list_towns

Without prefecture: the 47 prefectures with town and listing counts. With prefecture: every town in it with names, page URL and listing counts.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://bokenjapan.com/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	178 ms	14 min ago

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Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_listing, get_town, list_towns, search_places. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 61 of 61 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 152 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data need an API key?

No. Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Boken Japan: rural and small-town Japan travel data?

It answers our handshake in 152 ms on average, which is faster than 83% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.