China 12306 Train Tickets MCP Server

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China 12306 Train Tickets MCP is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 9 Sep 2026.

MCP server for China Railway 12306 ticket availability: schedules and seats by Chinese station name.

Uptime history 8 days of history · worst day 99%

8 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

978 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Sep 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten query_train_tickets, search_station

5 Sep a tool changed version2 times that day

and 1 more, back to 5 September 2026

China 12306 Train Tickets MCP does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add 12306-train-mcp --transport http https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "12306-train-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.12306-train-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "12306-train-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "12306-train-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

station

search_station

按关键词搜索12306车站名称，返回匹配的车站中文名列表。不确定城市有哪些车站时使用。

train

query_train_tickets

查询中国大陆12306火车票余票信息。参数from_city出发城市/车站中文名，to_city到达城市/车站中文名，date出发日期格式YYYY-MM-DD；留空默认明天。

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.pianam.cn/train-mcp/mcp	streamable-http	answering	612 ms	12 min ago

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China 12306 Train Tickets MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can China 12306 Train Tickets MCP do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: query_train_tickets, search_station. 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 China 12306 Train Tickets MCP 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 978 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect China 12306 Train Tickets MCP?

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

Does China 12306 Train Tickets MCP need an API key?

No. China 12306 Train Tickets MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is China 12306 Train Tickets MCP?

It answers our handshake in 978 ms on average, which is faster than 10% 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.

Is China 12306 Train Tickets MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.