The "National Council on Educational Reform" was set up as an ad hoc advisory committee to the Prime Minister. The Council's purpose is to propose measures to meet the needs of a highly developed information society of the 21st century. Educational reform is in progress at each level from kindergarten to graduate school in Japan based on the report of the Council. The main aim of the reports of the National Council on Educational Reform is transforming Japanese education from that which centers on formal education at schools to one that will continue on into life-long study. The idea of the intelligent school was proposed by the Council as the school of the future. An intelligent school aims that: (1) School equipment should be appropriate for a highly developed information society. (2) Education in schools should be transformed from teacher-centered education to learner-centered education. (3) Facilities and equipment at schools are to be shared by those receiving formal school education and those in life-long study. This paper describes the outline of the intelligent school as written in the report of the National Council on Educational Reform. This paper will also give a brief outline of Namerikawa lower secondary school in Toyama Prefecture, which is the first intelligent school in Japan constructed following the guidelines set by the National Council on Educational Reform.