is a Public Library serving Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. It is a central library of the consisting of 20 buildings. It was established in 1923 but burned down in 1945 in the

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and reopened in 1952. It is closed every Monday, unless that Monday is a national holiday, in which case the library is instead closed on the next weekday. It is also closed on every third Friday of the month and for about a week for the

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. It is located in

Tsuruma Park Tsuruma Park (鶴舞公園) is a park located in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya city, Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a p ...

, close to Tsurumai Station on the subway and JR rail lines.

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Despite being located in an area called Tsurumai, the name of the library and the park that it is located in are named Tsuruma without an "i." This is despite the fact that the place name "Tsurumai" and the library name "Tsuruma" are written the same way in Japanese in

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

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{{Authority control Tsuruma Park Library buildings completed in 1952 Libraries in Nagoya Public libraries 1923 establishments in Japan Libraries established in 1923

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