Virtual tour of Tokyo Metropolitan Library
- Tokyo Metropolitan Libraries
- Virtual Navigation (information on library services shown on video)
- Virtual Tour (Video Tour of the Library)
- List of other videos (link destinations are new webpages)
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Tokyo Metropolitan Libraries
Video of Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library located in Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park in Minato-ku.
Video of Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Library located in Kokubunji City.
Video of the exhibition corner at Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Virtual Navigation (information on library services shown on video)
Video of the library's various uses, including information on each floor, book search, archived material use, how to apply for photocopying service, etc.
Central Library
- Entrance
- Entering the Library (Reception Counter & Locker Room)
- Floor Information / 1st Floor Section (Dictionaries & Encyclopedia, Telephone Directories & Residential Maps)
- Searching Book or Material (Search PC)
- Access to Books in the closed stacks (Book Request)
- Making Copies (Photocopy Request)
- Search for More Detailed Information (Online Database, Etc.)
- Business Information, Legal Information and Health/Medical Information
- Newspapers & Magazines
- Information on Tokyo and Cities
- General Information & Reference(Inquiries accepted. Information will be provided on reference materials and data.)
- Telephone reference
- Social & Natural Science Room (Consensus statistics, standards & unbound, loose-leaf materials）
- Humanities Room (local history, history, geography, folk customs, etc.)
- Humanities Room (Art information, language dictionaries, biographies, Chinese & Korean books, etc.)
- Service Room for the Visually Impaired
- 4th floor Reading Room, Exhibition Room & Multi-purpose Hall
- Cafeteria
- Special Collection Room
Tama Library
- Full view
- Entering the Library
- Full view of the interior
- Exhibition Area
- Tokyo Magazine Bank
- Children's Room
- Services for Young Adult
- Study Area
- Open Stacks
- Service Guide
- Book Request & Photocopying
- Search & Access
- Online Database
- Reading Service Room
- 16mm Film Archive ( Closed Shelves on 2nd floor)
- Seminar Room
Virtual Tour (Video Tour of the Library)
Motorized bookshelves in the library basement, repairs conducted on insect-eaten books, various invaluable literature and other aspects not normally accessible are shown on video.
Central Library
Archives storing library documents and manuscripts
Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library has the largest number of books for a public library. Its archives and the invaluable materials stored there are shown.
- Books and manuscripts in the reading room and those in the archives
- Archives of Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library
- The archives and pre-World War II documents and manuscripts, such as the extra edition of Shukan Diamond magazine and Compedium of Plant Cultivation
- The archives and manuscripts in a variety of forms, such as "50 Views of Greater Tokyo" postcards and "Frolicking Animals" scroll
Special Collection Room storing invaluable materials
The special literature archives of invaluable manuscripts and other materials of the Edo and Meiji eras and those from the Edo Period are shown.
- Special Collection Room
- Pictoral design drawing of the "Overall illustration of the Inner Citadel, Front, Central, and Inner Palaces of Edo Castle"
- Pictoral puzzle "Illustration of Unwritten Famous Places"
- Japanese board game (similar to Snakes and Ladders) titled Sugoroku of Dressing Rooms with a Great Succes
Service Room for the Visually Impaired provide help in reading
The Office of Reading Assistance Services for the Visually Impaired, providing support to persons unable to read with conventional means, and the various reading services such as DAISY are featured.
- Service Room for the Visually Impaired
- Various services for the visually impaired such as Yomube-e, text-to-speech conversion and audio/magnification system
- DAISY (Service Room for the Visually Impaired)
- DAISY spreading in Sapie Library on the Web
Book Conservation Room protects library resources
Repair and restoration work at the Book Conservation Office, responsible for library archive conservation and restoration.
- Book Conservation Office
- Insect bores on Japanese-style bindings: Preparations for mending (restoration method 1)
- Mending (restoration method 2)
- Finish (restoration method 3)
Tama Library
Preparations under way
List of other videos
Videos produced by Tokyo Metropolitan Libraries, featuring past events, scheduled exhibitions, rare books in the archives, etc.
TMG's official video channel Tokyo Douga opens to view videos.
The videos are also available for viewing on TMG's official YouTube channel.
- "Guide to Famous Spots in Edo" of Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library.
Video of "Guide to Famous Spots in Edo" (guidebook published in the Edo Period showing famous sightseeing spots in the city) of Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library
- "Guide to Famous Spots of Edo" (Edo Meisho Zue) - No.1
- "Guide to Famous Spots of Edo" (Edo Meisho Zue) - No.2
- "Guide to Famous Spots of Edo" (Edo Meisho Zue) - No.3
- "Guide to Famous Spots of Edo" (Edo Meisho Zue) - No.4
Video on "A Smash Hit for the Local Book Trade" (Atariyashita Jihon Doiya) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library. Yellow cover by Juppensha Ikku, known as author of Tokaidochu HIzakurige, a bestselling comic picaresque of the Edo Period.
Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library participated in the restoration of local publications and manuscripts of Iwate Prefectural Rikuzentakata Municipal Library that was devastated by tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake. The video is a record of salvaging, repairing and restoring the damaged materials.