It has concert halls, an art gallery, a media-art museum, office space, many restaurants and shops.

The combined complex of the skyscraper tower and the theatre is called the "Tokyo Opera City".

NNTT is managed by several trust funds, government grants, admission revenues, and private donations from many supporting companies.

The NNTT has been repeatedly criticized for its bureaucratic arts administration, which is very representative of usual Japanese politics.

Although NNTT is financed by the Japanese government, major conductors, directors, and performing artists have all complained that their creative ideas are restricted by the bureaucratic style of the arts management.

The NNBT has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (Asami Maki's Raymonda in February 2008), and will also perform Asami Maki's version of La dame aux camellias, as a guest company at the Bolshoi Theatre in September 2009.

In the summer of 2008, the government-appointed theater board officials decided to replace artistic director Hitoshi Uyama with Keiko Miyata.