Tenri Central Library
Tenri · Nara
Address: 1050 Somanouchi-chō, Tenri, Nara 632-8577
Tenri University's library, founded in 1925; its main building, completed in 1930, was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2023. Its roughly 1.5 million volumes centre on early Japanese and Chinese books and include six National Treasures, among them the Jindai volumes of the Nihon shoki and the Harima no kuni fudoki. A closed-stack research library, it opens an anniversary exhibition in its second-floor gallery each autumn. On Tenri University's Somanouchi campus, about 30 minutes' walk from Tenri Station, or 8 minutes by the university bus on class days.
Exhibitions
- The Kokinshū and The Tales of Ise: Tenri Central Library 96th Anniversary Exhibition — Tenri Central Library · Nara · –