Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library, Prefectural central library in Suruga-ku, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library is the prefectural public library in Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City. It stands next to the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, with Shizuoka Prefectural University nearby. The building holds reading rooms, reference services, and special collections such as the Aoi Bunko, a former Tokugawa family library.
The library was founded in 1925, at a time when Japan was actively expanding its public education system. Over the following decades it grew and relocated more than once before settling in its current building in Suruga-ku.
The library has a dedicated section for books and periodicals focused entirely on the Shizuoka region, including local newspapers and regional publications that are hard to find elsewhere. Anyone curious about the history and daily life of the prefecture will find one of the most thorough collections in the area here.
Entry is free and the building provides Wi-Fi along with many workstations for visitors. Coming in the morning usually means finding a spot in the reading rooms without having to wait.
The Aoi Bunko collection, named after the Tokugawa family crest, holds 3,586 volumes from the shogunate's Shizuoka Gakumonjo school, including a copy of the Analects printed at Emperor Go-Yozei's order and the first Japanese-German dictionary. All of it is digitized in the Fuji no Kuni Archive, where visitors can download PDFs.
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