StayingAsia
English

Use this site from an assistant

The records behind this site are served over MCP, so an assistant can ask what a passport gets you at the border of Thailand, or which long stay routes Malaysia runs, and get the same answer the page gives, dated, with the source and the URL it came from.

The endpoint

https://stayingasia.com/api/mcp/

Streamable HTTP, stateless, JSON responses. There is no key and no account, and nothing is stored between requests. Use the address with the trailing slash.

What it answers

ToolQuestionReads from
check_entry What does my passport get me in this country? 1,584 entry rules across 21 destinations
country_overview Can I realistically stay in this country long term? The 21 country records
list_routes Which long stay routes exist here, or of this kind? 113 programme records
find_guides Which guide covers this question? 35 guides
search Anything else on the site Everything above

Add it to a client

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and anything else that speaks remote MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stayingasia": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stayingasia.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop, which only runs local servers, goes through a bridge:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stayingasia": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://stayingasia.com/api/mcp/"]
    }
  }
}

To run it locally instead, from a clone of the repository: node site/mcp/server.mjs starts the same server over stdio.

What an answer looks like

Asking for a United Kingdom passport into Thailand returns:

United Kingdom passport into Thailand
Category: Visa exemption
Days on entry: 30 days
Extension: One 30 day extension at immigration, THB 1,900
Note: Tourism only. Land border entries are capped at two
  per calendar year. Sixty days is the ceiling without leaving.
Checked: 2026-10-23
Source: Royal Gazette, Ministry of Interior exemption
  regulations https://ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/documents/128703.pdf
Page: https://stayingasia.com/entry/?destination=thailand

Every answer carries the date the record was checked, the government instrument behind it, and the page that shows the same thing to a reader.

Where the answers come from

The server reads the entry dataset and the markdown records that build the site, exported during the build. There is no separate copy of any fact, so a rule that changes on a page changes the answer on the same deploy. If a destination or a country is not covered, the server says so instead of estimating.

Limits

It is read only. It answers in English, because the records are written in English, even where the page exists in five other languages. There is no rate limit beyond the platform in front of it, so keep queries reasonable.

The whole dataset is also published as plain text at /llms-full.txt if you would rather read it than query it.