diff --git a/src/transformers/tokenization_transfo_xl.py b/src/transformers/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
index 5b174131bac..91d9ae1fab2 100644
--- a/src/transformers/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
+++ b/src/transformers/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
@@ -272,6 +272,33 @@ class TransfoXLTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
             self.idx2sym.append(sym)
             self.sym2idx[sym] = len(self.idx2sym) - 1
 
+    def move_added_token(self, token: str, target_idx: int):
+        """
+        Moves an added token to a specific position in the vocab.
+        This method should be used when resizing an embedding layer other than the last one in the `AdaptiveEmbedding`
+        in order to move the token in the tokenizer from the default position (at the very end) to the desired one.
+
+        Args:
+            token: The token to move to a specific position in the vocab.
+            target_idx: The position where the token should be moved to.
+        """
+        assert token in self.added_tokens_encoder, "Token which should be moved has to be an added token"
+        assert token not in self.idx2sym, "Token which should be moved is already in vocab"
+
+        # Insert sym into vocab
+        self.idx2sym.insert(target_idx, token)
+        self.sym2idx[token] = target_idx
+
+        # Shift following indices in sym2idx
+        for idx in range(target_idx + 1, len(self.idx2sym)):
+            current_sym = self.idx2sym[idx]
+            self.sym2idx[current_sym] = idx
+
+        # Delete token from added_tokens
+        old_index = self.added_tokens_encoder[token]
+        del self.added_tokens_decoder[old_index]
+        del self.added_tokens_encoder[token]
+
     def _convert_id_to_token(self, idx):
         """Converts an id in a token (BPE) using the vocab."""
         assert 0 <= idx < len(self), "Index {} out of vocabulary range".format(idx)
diff --git a/tests/test_tokenization_transfo_xl.py b/tests/test_tokenization_transfo_xl.py
index 257761fa38d..aa6b95e2da6 100644
--- a/tests/test_tokenization_transfo_xl.py
+++ b/tests/test_tokenization_transfo_xl.py
@@ -82,3 +82,16 @@ class TransfoXLTokenizationTest(TokenizerTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertListEqual(
             tokenizer.tokenize(" \tHeLLo ! how  \n Are yoU ?  "), ["HeLLo", "!", "how", "Are", "yoU", "?"]
         )
+
+    def test_move_added_token(self):
+        tokenizer = self.get_tokenizer()
+        original_len = len(tokenizer)
+
+        tokenizer.add_tokens(["new1", "new2"])
+        tokenizer.move_added_token("new1", 1)
+
+        # Check that moved token is not copied (duplicate)
+        self.assertEqual(len(tokenizer), original_len + 2)
+        # Check that token is moved to specified id
+        self.assertEqual(tokenizer.encode("new1"), [1])
+        self.assertEqual(tokenizer.decode([1]), "new1")