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Important Info
Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library will resume visitor services on March 16, 2023.
Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Library will resume visitor services on March 20, 2023.
Todays Notice
Central Library : Open 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (Copy service is accepted up to 30 minutes before closing time.) (Detailed Opening Hours)
Tama Library : Open 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (Copy service is accepted up to 30 minutes before closing time.) (Detailed Opening Hours)
What's new
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Renovation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Library (September 2022 - March 2023) and temporary closure of the library (September 1 - 30, 2022)
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Renovation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library (August 2022 - February 2023) and temporary closure of the library (July 19 - August 4, 2022)
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"Trouble Afoot! Case Files from Edo in the Final Years of the Shogunate": the Online Exhibition Participating in Tokyo Heritage Week 2021
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Regarding to the staff of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library becoming infected with COVID-19.
Tokyo Metropolitan Library
The Tokyo Metropolitan Library actually consists of two libraries: the Central Library and the Tama Library.
There are 2.59million volumes in the libraries. The proportion of foreign language books is about 10%, and an eminent collection in Tokyo.
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Central Library
A Rich Collection of Materials and High Quality Services Useful for Research Activities
The Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library has a collection of some 2.06 million volumes of materials, one of the largest collections among public libraries in Japan. Of the total, around 360,000 volumes are freely accessible on open stacks.
※Individual users are not allowed to take materials out of the library- Opening
Hours - Mon.-Fri.: 10:00a.m.-9:00p.m.
Sat., Sun., Holidays: 10:00a.m.-5:30p.m.
*The opening time varies in the Special Collection Room.
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Tama Library
The Tokyo Magazine Bank and the Services for Children and Young Adults
The central functions of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Library are the "Tokyo Magazine Bank", which provides services drawing on the distinctive features of magazines, and the "Services for Children and Young Adults", which promotes children's reading activities in Tokyo.
※Individual users are not allowed to take materials out of the library- Opening
Hours - Mon.-Fri.: 10:00a.m.-9:00p.m.
Sat., Sun., Holidays: 10:00a.m.-5:30p.m.
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