Sapporo Municipal Central Library

Address: South 22, West 13, Central Ward, Sapporo, 064-8516

Open: Mon to Fri 9:15am to 8pm / Sat, Sun & National Holidays 9:15am to 5pm

Closed: Facility inspection day (2nd Wednesday) / Library maintenance (4th Wednesday)
Year-end and New Year’s holidays (December 29 – January 3) / Library maintenance

Charge: Admission to the library and the perusal of books and other items are free. The library is open to all people.

URL: https://www.city.sapporo.jp/toshokan/english/english.html

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How to get a library card and who can get it?
If you live, work, or are a student in Sapporo, you can get a library card to borrow materials.
Bring one piece of identification with your current name and address on it.
You will get your card immediately and you can borrow books from any municipal library in Sapporo.
The library card is free.
Children under age 12 are not required to bring any piece of identification to get a library card.

Identification items [Examples]
Residence card, any delivered piece of mail addressed to the person requesting a library card.

What can you do with your library card?
Borrow
You can borrow all loan items, including books, magazines, CDs and DVDs without fee.
Please bring the books and other items you wish to borrow with your library card to a circulation desk. If you forget your library card, you can borrow books and other items by showing your name, phone mumber and date of birth.
Newspapers, foreign magazines, reference books, maps and atlases (marked [館内]) may be used only within the library.

Item limits, loan periods and renewal limits

Material Item limit Loan period Renewal limit
Books, Magazines 10 14 days 1
CDs, DVDs 2 14 days 1
Return
All items can be returned to any municipal library in Sapporo. Books can be returned in bookdrop. CDs and DVDs should be returned to the circulation desk.

Renew
Take items to the circulation desk. You cannot renew by phone. Requested or overdue items can not be renewed.

Request
Get the password at the circulation desk, and you can request materials on the web. You can also do in person at the library.
Request limits

Material Item limit
Books, Magazines 10
CDs, DVDs 2
What else can you do?
Copy service
Self-service copy machines are available. You can make photocopies of all library materials within the limits of copyright laws.
Fee: Black and white 10yen per page , color 50yen per page. Print from microfilm 50yen per page.

Collections
Books, magazines and newspapers in foreign languages are shelved on the second floor.
Books: about 20,000
Newspapers: 4
Magazines: 20

List of newspapers and magazines in foreign languages
Newspapers
The Japan Times
New York Times International Ed.
New York Times
Renmin Ribao [Chi.] 人民日報
Magazines
Art in America
Better Homes and Gardens
Car and Driver
The Economist
Elle Decoration
EMPIRE
LE Figaro Magazine [Fr.]
Forbes Asia
Foreign Affairs
Fortune
Hiragana Times
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Newsweek
Re:Eye-Ai
Rolling Stone
Scientific American
Der Spiegel [Ger.]
Time
Vogue