Woven City is Toyota’s 176-acre city where it tests new technology and ideas about the future of the urban environment. And it holds lessons for how any city can innovate.
Just south of Mount Fuji, on a modest 176-acre site once occupied by Toyota’s Higashi-Fuji automotive factory, a groundbreaking urban experiment is underway. Launched in 2024, Phase 1 was completed last year and houses 360 residents, most of them Toyota employees and their families, as well as some researchers and retirees. It will ultimately be home to some 2,000 residents.
