is a public library in Hakodate, Hokkaidà Â, Japan. The library is known in particular for its important collection of northern materials and for its .
The origins of a library in Hakodate lie in the opening of a society library at the home of in 1907. Two years later, the private membership Hakodate Library opened in municipal premises in . In 1915, with a donation from , construction of a dedicated five-storey library began, completed the following year; this building is important as an early example of a reinforced concrete building on the island (cf. à Âtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in). In the first year of the Shà Âwa era (1926), city councillors approved the design of a new municipal library, three storey, again in reinforced concrete. With the approval of the private Hakodate Library's director , its entire collection was donated and transferred, and in 1928 the new opened to the public. Duty to the city's growth, a number of local libraries were opened in the following decades. In 2005 the new Hakodate City Central Library opened across the road from Goryà Âkaku.