Toyota Motor Corporation is moving ahead with its vision of the future where it isn’t a mix of Camrys and Corollas, or hybrids and EVs, but one of “inventors” and “weavers’ in a community centered around mobility.

Toyota is preparing to open the gates of the Woven City, a 2,000-resident new world where employees are willingly moving in with their families

Beginning in fall 2025, 100 residents known as “weavers” will move to the city, with that number expected to expand to 360 during phase one. Eventually, Toyota says, up to 2,000 people will reside in the city. They will primarily be employees of Toyota or Toyota’s Woven by Toyota mobility tech company.

The name Woven City refers to Toyota’s founding as a manufacturer of high-quality fabric looms, as well as a reference to the shapes of the roads weaving through it like thread. Toyota says it would be “a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells.”

Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock-full of startups and technology. His message: Woven

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced plans to open a prototype smart city at the foot of Mount Fuji as early as this fall.

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda returned to CES 2025 after five years, bringing with him updates on the much-talked-about Woven City.

Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its first residents. At CES this week, the Japanese auto giant updated the public on the progress of the $10 billion project,

Toyota has completed construction of the first phase of its experimental Woven City at the foot of Mt Fuji and people will start moving in in fall 2025