Toyota is making significant progress in completing Woven City, the mobility-focused city the brand decided to build in 2018. At CES 2025, the Japanese company announced that the buildings comprising its first phase are now complete.
The Japanese manufacturer is following an ambitious schedule, planning to host the first residents of the enclave during this first phase, which is expected to happen in autumn of this year.
In total, about 100 residents, mostly employees of Toyota and its subsidiary Woven by Toyota, will move with their families to this miniature city, located within the grounds of its Higashi-Fuji plant in the Shizuoka region.
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This will create a community of 360 residents ready to live and innovate together in the future of mobility.
The Plans
According to Toyota’s statement, this launch of Woven City, now official, will also be supported by a mass invitation to startups, entrepreneurs, universities, and research institutes, who will be able to join the project through an accelerator entity that will launch in summer.
Additionally, the city’s leaders are already in talks with other Japanese companies, such as the oil company Eneos and the telecom company NTT.
To foster this co-creation environment, the city’s design was developed with its residents as the priority, featuring a layout where everyone will always have easy access to the resources needed to carry out their projects as well as the services required for daily life.
Once Toyota completes this first phase, the development of Woven City will continue with a second phase, where the number of residents is expected to increase significantly, eventually reaching approximately 2,000 people.
