Akita City Central Library Meitokukan, Municipal library in Senshū-Meitokuchō, Akita, Japan

The Akita City Central Library Meitokukan stands at 4-4 Senshū Meitoku-chō, on the site of the former Akita City Meitoku Elementary School, which moved away in 1981. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, it is a reinforced-concrete building of two storeys above ground. The ground floor holds children's books and picture books on the right and general books on the left; a central stair leads to a mezzanine lounge facing the courtyard, and the second floor has reading and study rooms, a reference research room and the Ishikawa Tatsuzō Memorial Room.

The library opened on October 3, 1983, on the site of the former Akita City Meitoku Elementary School, which had moved in 1981. It was the first public library in the Tōhoku region with a computer system, linking the city's three libraries online. In 1990 it became the first in Japan to offer book searches and reservations via Captain System terminals.

The library is named after the Meitokukan, the domain school of the Kubota domain, and stands on the site of Akita City Meitoku Elementary School, which occupied it from 1902 until 1981. The neighborhood, Senshū Meitokuchō, takes its name from that school. The lane just south of the building was nicknamed "Meitokukan Kōji" in 1984 through a public naming contest.

The library stands in the Senshū Park area, about a 6-minute walk from Akita Station's west exit, or 8 minutes via Hirokōji; buses stop at Senshū Park Entrance and Chūō Police Station. The building has two floors: children's books and picture books on the right of the ground floor, general books on the left, a small lounge at the mezzanine overlooking the courtyard, and reading and reference rooms upstairs. The Ishikawa Tatsuzō Memorial Room on the second floor is free to enter.

The library stands on the site of the former Akita City Meitoku Elementary School, which operated here from 1902 until 1981; the neighbourhood name Senshū Meitokuchō comes from that school. The building was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi and won the Tōhoku Architecture Award in 1984.