Information in the hall

1F Bookshelf Guide Map (PDF: 212KB)

Counter/Book book return box

1Regional Information Corner
2Newspaper and Telephone Book Corner
3Internet terminals

4Picture books and picture-story show corner
5The corner of the book of knowledge
6Story corner
7Local materials corner
8A corner of the corner
9Foreign Language Book Corner
10Child care information and children's book research corner

Courtyard/Reuse Bunko
User search machine
Toilet (male, woman, multipurpose)

Bookshelf Guide Map on the 2nd floor (PDF: 217KB)

11Teens corner
12Bunko Book Corner
13Local materials corner
14Reference Book Corner
15Large print corner
16Foreign Language Book Corner (General Books)
17Magazine corner
18Large book corner

Terrace/Meeting Room
Face-to-face reading room/user search machine
Enlarged reading device / toilet (male / female)

In addition to registration, lending, and returning, we also accept reservations and consultations (references) on research. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Please refer to the "Yokohama City Library Usage Guide" for registration, lending, reservation, etc.

If the library is closed at night or on closed days, you can return the materials to book return box.
Please don't put anything other than the materials of Yokohama City Library.

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and public holidays (holiday) from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Year-end (December 28) 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
New Year's Day (January 4) From noon to 5:00 pm

Closed days
Facility inspection date (once a month)
Year-end and New Year holidays (December 29 to January 3)
Date of special arrangement
For more information, please visit the Yokohama City Library Library Calendar.

In addition to announcements from the Yokohama City Hall and the Sakae Ward Office, there are also information on events such as community care plazas and district centers, flyers and pamphlets for various events organized by civil society organizations.
In addition, posters are also posted on the bulletin board, and there is a variety of information such as lectures, concerts, seminars and community exploration meetings, and recruitment of chorus group members.

You can read newspapers and telephone books.
The old newspaper is in the library, so if you wish, please apply at the counter.

1 year preservation
Asahi Shimbun / Kanagawa Shimbun-sha / Sankei Shimbun
Sports Nippon / Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun
Nihon Keizai Shimbun / Mainichi Shimbun
The Yomiuri Shimbun/The Japan Times/
Yomiuri KODOMO Newspaper / Yomiuri Junior and Senior High School Newspaper
Asahi Elementary School Newspaper / Everyday Elementary School Newspaper
Compact edition

• “Nikkei Shimbun Compact Edition” From January 1989
• “Asahi Shimbun Compact Edition” From January 1997

You can use the newspaper article database on the Internet terminal.
For more information, please refer to the following page.

We have telephone books for the Kanto region (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa) and Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures.

Please apply at the counter to view housing maps including Sakae Ward.
The road map for rental can be found in the "General Book Corner" on the second floor.
Please refer to the “Sakae Library Sakae Ward Housing Map Catalog” for information on housing maps in Sakae Ward.

We have installed two PCs that can browse the Internet.
In addition to the information in library materials, it can be used for various research, such as obtaining the latest information from the Internet.
You can also use an online database.
For more information, please refer to the following page.

Picture books are divided into three categories: story picture books, knowledge picture books, and small picture books.
"Story picture books" and "small picture books" are in alphabetical order of the first letter of the painter's last name.
"Picture books of knowledge" are lined up by theme such as insects, trains, and crafts.
The picture-story show is arranged in different colors according to the first letter of the title.

There is also a "Picture Book to Meet for the First Time" corner, which collects picture books for children aged 0 to 3 years.
If you are not sure what kind of book to read for a small child, please use this corner.
Books recommended for small children are introduced in the "Yokohama City Library Kids Page A picture book to enjoy with knees".

Insect book, train book, craft book…This is a corner where you can collect books on knowledge.
It's lined up by theme.

It is lined up in the order of the first letter of the last name of the person who wrote the story.
There is also a "First Time Story" corner where books for children in the lower grades of elementary school are collected.
For the first time, a book at the story corner is introduced in the book list "First Time Story".

In addition, in the "Let's read books" corner, books recommended for elementary school students are collected and placed. Grade stickers are attached for each target, so please refer to this selection.

It contains materials about Sakae Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa, etc.

There are picture books and dictionaries.
You can't borrow it, so please see it in the library.
There is also a reading seat for children only (up to junior high school students), so you can use it when you do something.

I have a collection of children's books written in English and Hangul.
Why don't you read picture books you read in English or Hangul for adults as well as children?

This is a corner where you can collect materials about children's books.
Lists of picture books and children's books, books on how to read stories, and research books on children's literature.
I have it.

It's not enough at the corner of the children's book, but there are too many books in the general book corner and I can't find a book that fits me perfectly. This is a corner that collects books for such teenagers.
We have books on various themes, from books on school life, career and work, to introductory books on each subject, hobby books such as music, sports and cooking, and novels.

This is a corner where paperback books are collected.

This is a corner where dictionaries and white papers are collected. You can't borrow it, so please take a look inside the museum.
Reading seats (32 seats) for research are also available.

If you are using a personal computer or calculator, please use the personal computer seat (2 seats) in front of the conference room.

This section contains materials about Sakae Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa, etc.
We collect materials and administrative materials that allow you to know the local history.
A book about Sakae Ward is introduced in the Sakae Library Book List.

This is a corner where books written in large print (large print) are collected for easy reading.

In addition to novels and practical books written in English and Chinese, there are also materials such as living information in Spanish and Portuguese.

It's a corner where magazines are collected. The latest issue cannot be borrowed, so please see it in the library.
　For magazines held by Sakae Library, please refer to the Sakae Library Collection Magazine Catalog.

This is a corner where large materials such as art books are collected.
Lending is also possible.

There is a courtyard at the back of the corner of the children's book on the first floor, and a terrace at the back of the reference book corner on the second floor.
This is a space where you can eat and drink, so please feel free to use it.
Please be sure to take your garbage home.

It is a place where you can bring books that are no longer needed at home and exchange them with residents of the city.
It's not the recycling of books in the library.
For more information, please visit the City of Yokohama, Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Reuse Bunko.
You can bring your book.…
Up to 20 books per person, once per person (about)
Please bring it to the counter on the first floor.

Please refrain from bringing in.

1. What is dirty or broken
2. For the purpose of advertising or political activities for profit, or religious missionary work
3. Those that hinder the healthy development of young people
4. Major things such as encyclopedias and complete literature

　　For more information, please contact the counter.

Take out the book
1 person, 1 time, up to 5 books (degree)
No procedure is required. Feel free to take it home.

It is usually used for meetings and library events.
Only when not used as a conference room, it is open as a reading room (30 seats).

The transliterator reads out the material you want. Advance reservations are required for use.
　　　For more information, please see "Services for People with Disabilities in Yokohama City Library".

There are 5 machines on the first floor and 3 machines on the second floor, and user search machines to search for library materials.
If you don't know how to use it, ask the counter on the first floor.

There is one enlarged reading device on the second floor. If you have difficulty reading characters of normal size, please use them freely.
At the counter on the first floor, magnifying mirrors (loupes) and reading glasses are also rented (only in the hall).
If you need it, please let us know.