Get Around Hong Kong is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.
Hong Kong public transport trips (MTR, bus, minibus, ferry), live times, fares and border queues.
Uptime history
33 days of history
33 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
892 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 14
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
7 Nov
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
plan_trip
30 Oct
a tool appeared
search_routes
30 Oct
a tool changed version
25 Oct
a tool appeared
nearby_departures
25 Oct
a tool changed version
23 Oct
a tool changed version2 times that day
23 Oct
a tool appeared
get_events
12 Oct
a tool description was rewritten
border_crossings
9 Oct
a tool appeared
border_crossings
9 Oct
a tool changed version
and 4 more, back to 6 October 2026
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Get Around Hong Kong 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 6 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add trip-planner --transport http https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.trip-planner]
url = "https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"trip-planner": {
"url": "https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"trip-planner": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 7
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
border
border_crossings
How busy each land and bridge crossing between Hong Kong and mainland China is right now (Lo Wu, Lok Ma Chau Spur Line, Shenzhen Bay, Heung Yuen Wai, Huanggang Port, Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, Man Kam To, Sha Tau Kok): the Immigration Department's queue level and waiting range on the Hong Kong side, leaving and entering, for Hong Kong residents and for visitors, with how to get there and where to plan a trip to.
events
get_events
Big events in Hong Kong (concerts at the major venues, sports, festivals, arts), the same list as getaroundhongkong.com/events: titles in five languages, dates, venue, coordinates, nearest MTR station, and this site's page for getting there. Filter by dates (events overlapping from–to, Hong Kong dates, YYYY-MM-DD; from today on by default) and featured (the biggest, most crowded ones).
nearby
nearby_departures
What's leaving now from the MTR stations, bus stops and green minibus stops around a place in Hong Kong, nearest first: each route and direction once (at its nearest stop), where it's heading and the minutes until its next two departures, live from the operators. No destination needed: for "when's my bus" or "what leaves near here". Trams, ferries and Light Rail aren't included; for a trip from A to B use plan_trip.
place
search_place
Stations, stops, landmarks, restaurants (official licence list), buildings and street addresses in Hong Kong matching the text, best first, with what each is and its coordinates. Pass near to rank a chain's branches nearest to a point.
plan
plan_trip
Routes between two places in Hong Kong by MTR, bus, minibus, tram and ferry, best first: departure and arrival times, every walk and ride with stops, Octopus fares for the group, live next departures, traffic delays, and a link to open the trip on a live map. Also lists Klook things to do near the destination (affiliate ads).
routes
search_routes
Hong Kong bus and green minibus routes by number, and MTR lines by name or code, the same as typing one in the site's Nearby box: where each runs between, its operator, its first and last departures by day, and this site's page for it (every stop, fares, live arrivals). A number can be several routes (route 40 is Citybus, KMB and three minibus routes in different districts): all are returned, each with its ends. Special services (a supplementary or short-working run) are left out once they have no departure left today. For travelling somewhere, use plan_trip.
service
service_updates
What's disrupted right now: MTR lines reporting a delay (MTR's next-train feed) and open road incidents such as accidents, breakdowns and lane closures (Transport Department special traffic news). Empty lists mean nothing is reported. plan_trip also flags these on the options they affect.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://getaroundhongkong.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 867 ms | 6 min ago |
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Get Around Hong Kong — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Get Around Hong Kong do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: border_crossings, get_events, nearby_departures, plan_trip, search_place, search_routes and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Get Around Hong Kong working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 892 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Get Around Hong Kong?
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 Get Around Hong Kong need an API key?
No. Get Around Hong Kong completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Get Around Hong Kong?
It answers our handshake in 892 ms on average, which is faster than 6% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.