@pipeworx/japan-places

Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp — every tool in the catalog, including @pipeworx/japan-places’s. Install: one-click buttons

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Tools: 2

Facilities in Japan near a point or a named train/subway station — convenience stores (konbini), restaurants, pharmacies, hospitals, banks, ATMs, hotels and other places, with distance in metres and coordinates for each result.

Tools

• places_near_station(station, category, radius_m?, limit?) — geocodes a Japanese station or place name (e.g. “Shibuya Station, Tokyo”) and returns nearby facilities matching the category, sorted by distance. Answers “convenience stores within 500m of Shibuya station”.
• places_near_point(latitude, longitude, category, radius_m?, limit?) — same search, from coordinates you already have instead of a station name.

category accepts plain English/romanized terms (convenience_store, konbini, station, eki, hospital, byouin, pharmacy, yakkyoku, restaurant, izakaya, cafe, supermarket, bank, atm, hotel, post_office, toilet, parking, school, temple, shrine, park) or an exact OpenStreetMap tag (shop=bakery).

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• OpenStreetMap contributors — place and point-of-interest tags (shops, amenities, railway stations) for Japan, served live through the public Overpass query service. Data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL 1.0: attribution is required and carried in every response’s source field and here. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright for the full terms. This pack sends one live query per call and stores nothing — a proxy of the public service, not a copy of the dataset (CLAUDE.md: “proxying is not redistribution”).
• OpenStreetMap contributors — the public Nominatim geocoding service, used only to resolve a station/place NAME to coordinates (never to look up arbitrary addresses in bulk). Usage is kept to the documented public-policy shape: identified User-Agent, one request per call, no caching of the dataset itself. See https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/ for the policy this pack follows.

Notes

• This is a Japan-branded, discoverability-focused entry point over the same public OpenStreetMap query service the general-purpose overpass pack also uses (shared/src/overpass.ts handles host failover for both). It exists because a bare “Overpass” or “OSM” name and description do not surface for Japan-phrased questions (“convenience stores near Shibuya station”) — see fleet #4092, where that exact question mis-routed to a Mexico-only pack and came back with a false “no results” instead of failing honestly or finding the real answer.
• Station-name geocoding is biased to Japan (countrycodes=jp) so common station names (“Central Station”) do not resolve outside Japan. Adding the city disambiguates same-named stations in different cities.
• distance_m is a straight-line (haversine) distance from the search center, not a walking route distance.
• The public Overpass instances are a small set of volunteer-run servers and occasionally all answer slowly or time out at once — this is the upstream service, not a Pipeworx fault; the error names which instances were tried.

Tools

• places_near_station — Find facilities in Japan near a named train or subway station — convenience stores (konbini: 7-Eleven, Lawson, FamilyMart), restaurants, pharmacies, hospitals, ATMs, banks, hotels, supermarkets near a
• places_near_point — Find facilities in Japan near a latitude/longitude — convenience stores, stations, hospitals, pharmacies, restaurants, ATMs and other POIs. Use when you already have coordinates rather than a station