This library was built to honor the mountaineer Buntaro Kato, who was from Shinonsen Town. The building was designed to look like the mountains he climbed. It houses some of his personal belongings, materials about him and books about mountains and mountaineering.

Address: 842-2 Hamasaka, Shinonsen Town
Closed Thursdays, 3rd Tuesdays, 4th Mondays