National Diet Library NDL-OPAC

National Diet Library
Online Public Access Catalog

User Guide

Hours (Japan Time)
Mon.-Sat.	7:00-29:30 (next day 5:30)
Sun.	7:00-25:00 (next day 1:00) (to 22:00 on the 3rd Sundays)

The NDL consists of the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL). If you search the holdings of any particular library, select from the pull-down menu of the "Select a library"box on the Search for General Materials.

Please refer to Remote user services for loan and copying service.

Japanese page is here.

Books, periodicals, electronic resources, Japanese & Chinese old materials, doctoral dissertations, maps, audiovisual materials & Ashihara Collection can be searched here.

[Simple Search](Japanese Books)
Title
Author / Editor

General materials can be searched in more detail.

Articles in journals selected by the NDL can be searched by title, author, etc.

The Prange Collection (periodicals and newspapers) can be searched.