China Footnotes answers practical questions for first-time foreign visitors to China: opening hours, tickets, booking channels and passport notes, last entry, metro and taxi directions, stored notices, events and traveler tips. It also covers pre-trip setup: when to go, visas, paying, internet and SIM, apps, booking ahead, getting around and safety. Coverage: Shanghai (50 places), Beijing (20), Xi'an (10), Chengdu (12), Chongqing (10) and Hangzhou (10). Ask for a full entry or selected sections and fields. Traveler tips are paginated, with counts and more available on request. A visit date adds a conservative check against stored rules, not live opening or ticket availability. Facts retain conditions, sources and actual check dates; unknowns and conflicting sources remain explicit. Traveler reports stay separate from official rules. Read-only; no sign-in, bookings or sales. The service records bounded usage metrics and anonymous category aggregates. It does not retain raw search words, full tool inputs or outputs, conversations, visitor IPs or persistent user IDs. Do not include personal information in tool inputs. See the privacy policy for storage and retention details.
