There is about 750 square meters of floor space divided into offices and laboratories. Laboratories include a vivarium for maintaining transgenic mice, clean rooms for germ cell experimentation, cold rooms for handling bioactive materials, and three P2 level laboratories for DNA recombination experimentation. More than a million dollars worth of new equipment was purchased to enable research into any aspect of molecular biology. Kitasato University is located in Towada City, approximately 30 miles east of Lake Towada and 20 miles west of the Pacific Ocean. It is about 450 miles north of Tokyo, so enjoys a more relaxed, country-like atmosphere.
Students can enjoy hiking and skiing in the mountains and scuba diving or swimming in the ocean.
A short train ride takes you north to the Sapporo ice festival and the beauties of Hokkaido. All of the beauties of Japan can be enjoyed here and anything Western needed is just a short hop away at the local shopping center.