Overview of Facilities

The library is your wisdom bag!
The Kanagawa Library will focus on supporting research that is familiar to you.
If you have any questions, please use the library.

From Tuesday to Friday: From 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and public holidays (holidays): From 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
December 28: From 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
January 4: From noon to 5 p.m.
Please refer to the library calendar for closed days.

General Book Corner Map (PDF: 114KB)
Children's Book Corner Map (PDF: 260KB)

There are eight newspapers: Asahi, Nihon Keizai, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Kanagawa, Sankei, Daily Sports, and JapanTimes. The back number is kept by Kanagawa Shimbun-sha for two years and two months, and other newspapers for one year and two months. Those two months ago are in the library, so please contact the counter. The reduced edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun has been kept up to the latest issue since April 1980 (Showa 55). (There is a missing volume on the way.)

There are telephone books by occupation in Kanagawa, Tokyo and Saitama prefectures. There are Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata and Gifu in the library, so please contact the counter when using. The paper version of the telephone directory "Hello Page" by person name has been discontinued with the final version issued from October 2021 to February 2023.

General seats (32 seats)
It is available for high school students and above. You can use the vacant seats freely.
All seats can be brought in personal computers, and there are 8 seats with power.
Children's seats (12 seats)
It is available to junior high school students at the seat in the children's book corner. You can use the vacant seats freely.
Internet access seats (2 seats)
This is a seat with a personal computer that allows you to browse the Internet. Various online databases are available.
Use is in units of 30 minutes at a time, and if you do not wait next, you can use it up to 2 hours.
If you would like to use it, please contact the counter.

There is one coin-operated copy machine.
Printing in black and white is 10 yen per sheet. Printing in color is 50 yen for B5, B4, A4 size and 80 yen for A3 size.

You can use FREESPOT.

This is the Kanagawa Library mascot character "Otohime Kana".
It was born after the legend of Urashima.
Maybe you can meet here and there in Kanagawa Library? Look for it.