Creating a walk plan together with Claude AI

Beta notice — This feature is offered as a beta feature, and its completeness, accuracy, and availability are not guaranteed. We may change the specification or end the service without prior notice. For details, please review About using MCP.

What you can do

When you connect Claude.ai (claude.ai) and Bijusanpo via MCP (Model Context Protocol), you can ask Claude to do everything from searching for exhibitions to creating a walk plan, all within your conversation with Claude.

• Find exhibitions through conversation — Say something like “Any exhibitions on this Saturday in Ueno?” and Claude searches for and suggests exhibitions you can visit that day
• Create a walk plan through conversation — Once you’ve settled on some candidates, say “Make a plan with these” and a walk plan with a map and timeline appears in Claude.ai. The web version of the walk plan is made up of exhibitions only, but through MCP you can build a plan together with Claude that also includes suggested lunch, cafés, and other plans — that’s what makes MCP special
• Manage favorites through conversation — Manage your favorites in conversation, such as “Add this to Want to go” or “Take it off Want to go”
• Find exhibitions from your “Want to go” list — Get suggestions starting from your saved exhibitions, like “Which exhibitions on my Want to go list can I visit this weekend?”
• Register and update your nearest station — Ask “Change my nearest station to Shinjuku Station” and Claude resolves the latitude and longitude and registers it for you

Connecting requires you to log in to Bijusanpo (with Google or LINE). Your favorites and nearest station are the same ones tied to your regular Bijusanpo account.

Prerequisites for connecting

• A Claude.ai account — You need a separate claude.ai account provided by Anthropic
• A Claude plan that supports MCP connections — You need a plan on Claude.ai that allows adding MCP (custom connectors). Check Claude.ai’s latest help for the plan requirements
• Currently supported AI tools — Only Claude (Anthropic, Inc.) has been verified to work. Support for ChatGPT, Gemini, and others will be added over time
• Agreeing to the terms of use — Before starting the connection, please read About using MCP

How to connect

Add Bijusanpo’s MCP server URL from Settings in Claude.ai.

Please complete the connection from a desktop browser — Adding a custom connector can currently only be done from Claude.ai on a PC (desktop) (the add menu doesn’t appear in the Claude.ai mobile app or on a smartphone). Once you’ve finished connecting on a PC, you can then call the Bijusanpo MCP from the mobile version of Claude too.

1. Open claude.ai in a browser on your PC and log in

2. Open Settings → Connectors in Claude.ai

3. Go to Add custom connector

4. For the name, enter something easy to recognize, such as “Bijusanpo”

5. For the server URL, enter the following value

   https://art.bijusanpo.com/mcp

6. Press the Add button, and a new browser tab opens with the Bijusanpo login screen

7. Log in with Google or LINE (if you’re already logged in to Bijusanpo, it proceeds automatically)

8. The app connection screen appears

9. Review the access this app requests

   • Search exhibitions and read your settings (mcp:read)
   • Update favorites, walk plans, and settings (mcp:write)
   • Plus access to your user identifier, display name, email address, and so on

10. If you agree with the contents, tap Allow

11. You’re automatically returned to Claude.ai, and the connection is complete

The connector UI on the Claude.ai side may change. Please also check Claude.ai’s help for the latest steps.

Example conversations

Once you’re connected, try talking to Claude in the Claude.ai chat like this.

• “Any exhibitions I can visit near Tokyo Station this afternoon?” — Claude searches for exhibitions you can visit that day and presents candidates
• “This weekend, tell me which exhibitions on my Want to go list I can visit” — Pulls out the exhibitions from your “Want to go” list that you can visit that day
• “Add this exhibition to Want to go” — Pick one from the candidates and add it to “Want to go”
• “Make a walk plan with the ___ exhibition and the ___ exhibition” — Generates a walk plan with a map and timeline, and issues a share URL too
• “Change my nearest station to X Station” — Updates your Bijusanpo nearest-station setting through Claude

Search results appear right in Claude’s chat as a map and exhibition cards.

When you ask for a walk plan, it generates a timeline plan that, in addition to the exhibitions, includes suggested lunch, cafés, and other plans. The plan is issued a share URL, so you can open the same plan on Bijusanpo’s web screen or share it with friends (for how to use the share URL, see Sharing your exhibition list with the people you’re going with via a shared plan).

What looks different when the share URL is opened — Someone who opens the share URL on the web can only see the order of exhibition visits (numbers, exhibition names, venue names) and the transit route. The timeline’s time slots (10:00–12:00, etc.) and the lunch, cafés, and other plans can only be seen on the Claude.ai display. You’ll need to convey the times and meal details to the people you’re going with yourself.

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When you want to disconnect

To disconnect, remove the connection from the connector settings on the Claude.ai side. Once the connection is removed on Claude.ai, no further exchanges take place.

Information saved on the Bijusanpo side, such as your nearest station, can still be deleted individually after disconnecting from My Page.

Common stumbling points

• You can’t find “Add custom connector” in the mobile app — Currently, adding connectors is only possible from Claude.ai in a PC browser. Once you’ve connected, you can also use it through conversation from Claude.ai on mobile
• The app connection screen doesn’t appear and it stays on the login screen — If you added the connector while not logged in to Bijusanpo, it first completes your login and then automatically proceeds to the consent screen. Log in with either Google or LINE
• You added a “Want to go” through Claude after connecting, but it isn’t reflected on Bijusanpo’s web — Reload the Bijusanpo tab or reopen the Favorites page to refresh to the latest state
• You asked to “change my nearest station to X Station” but it was registered to a different place — Resolving coordinates from a station name can sometimes be off. Check the location on the Google Maps URL Claude shows before allowing it. If it was registered incorrectly, tell Claude “that was the wrong place,” or correct it directly from your nearest-station setting on My Page
• You get 0 search results — Combining a destination with a fine-grained genre (tag) tends to produce 0 results. Tell Claude “drop the tag filter,” or try widening the destination range
• Can I use AI tools other than Claude.ai (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)? — Currently only Claude has been verified to work. Support for other AI tools will be added over time