Hekinan City Library, Public library in Hekinan, Japan

Hekinan City Library stands in the Hekinan Art and Culture Village, opposite the Hekinan Arts and Culture Hall across a circular stair and pond. The steel-reinforced concrete building, with one basement and two upper floors, has a glass-heavy facade and a fan-shaped plan. Its 4,237.11 m² floor area holds general stacks, a reference corner, an AV lounge and a basement closed stack for 250,000 volumes.

Its predecessor, the Shinkawa Library, opened in 1912 at Shinkawa Higher Elementary School, with principal Itakura Matsutaro also serving as librarian; his bequest enlarged the collection, which held 6,588 volumes by 1925. When Hekinan was formed in 1948, the library opened in the former Shinkawa branch of the city office, and Major Maggie of the GHQ attended the ceremony. It moved to the Seinen Kaikan in 1962 and to a dedicated building in Genjishinmeicho in 1969, taking the name Hekinan City Library in 1991. The current building opened on 17 July 1993 as part of the Hekinan Art and Culture Village.

The library serves as a gathering place for residents of all ages, where the community connects through shared reading spaces and local history collections. Visitors notice how different groups use the rooms throughout the day, from students studying together to families exploring materials side by side.

Library users can access digital resources, databases, and physical materials using a library card. Staff members are available during regular hours to help visitors locate materials and use the available services.

Since 1993 the library has lent framed reproductions of famous paintings and rare toys from Japan and abroad, alongside books. Its collection also holds miniature books (mamehon) gathered since 2007, including Nagoya Mamehon and Suntory's Yoshu Mame Tengoku, some of them available for loan.