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Bunkyō-ku, Japan
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Japan, 〒113-0021 Tōkyō-to, Bunkyō-ku, Honkomagome, 2 Chome−28−21, 公益財団法人東洋文庫
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N35° 43' 52.61" E139° 44' 54.82"
(35.731280555556, 139.74856111111)
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The Tōyō Bunko (東洋文庫), or "Oriental Library", is Japan's largest Asian studies library and one of the world's five largest, located in Tokyo. It also functions as a research institute dedicated to the study of Asian history and culture. It has greatly contributed to the development of Asian Studies through the acquisition of books and other source materials as well as the publication of research by Japanese scholars. Presently, the library contains approximately 950,000 volumes which are cataloged linguistically according to Asian, Western and Japanese language materials.