The building was provided generously by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and was opened in November 1995. It has a total floor area of 6,000 m2 including the Guest House. The Institute is also setting up advanced computer systems to enable it to operate as a virtual campus in the sense of using the global communications network to link certain other universities and research institutes.
All apartments have their own kitchen and bathroom and are fully furnished.
Tour through some of the facilities VU Media and Technology Laboratory has set up a tour through some of the IAS' facilities. There are numerous servers, workstations, and personal computers running a variety of general and specialized applications. LAN has been installed. User applications for general purpose, word processing, database, electronic mail, etc., are standardized on the MS Office suite.