The Tokyo Stock Exchange unveiled the TSE Arrows information center, a new face of the stock exchange designed to enhance the exchange between investors and listed companies, during a press preview Tuesday.

The new information center is located on the former stock trading floor where floor traders and brokers made deals before transactions were fully computerized Apr. 30. The refurbishment cost about 2.5 billion yen.

TSE Arrows will be open to the public starting May 15. The new facility is open between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and admission is free. In its effort to express the TSE's fair and transparent approach to securities trading, it created the Market Center, a section inside a cylindrical glass structure in TSE Arrows, according to TSE officials.

The section has about 50 TSE staffers constantly monitoring transactions and large screens that display real-time information such as volumes and stock indexes.

The facility also provides space for press conferences and other investors' relations activities for listed companies as well as a section for various activities such as exhibitions and seminars.

Private investors can visit the Information Terrace, a section where they can see the latest corporate information on listed companies. There are also sections that display exhibitions on the history and the mechanism of the securities market.