Toyota Woven City celebrates completion of Phase 1 buildings

TOKYO: The official launch of Toyota Woven City will take place in the fall of 2025, which will see the first residents move in.

After a groundbreaking in 2021, buildings for the first phase of the Toyota Woven City project were completed in October 2024.

The automaker recently held a Phase 1 completion ceremony at the Kakezan Invention Hub, Toyota Woven City to express its gratitude to Obayashi Corp, Nikken Sekkei Ltd and others involved in the construction, as well as to the local community and everyone involved in the automotive and other industries.

"Woven City is an ever evolving 'eternally unfinished city' and a 'test course for future mobility," said Toyota Motor Corp chairman Akio Toyoda.

The automaker aims for Woven City to become a place of collaboration between Inventors and Weavers (as visitors and residents are called) who will co-create services, products and technologies moved by the idea of “working for someone other than themselves.”

At Woven City, Weavers will use and experience the products and services developed by Inventors in various places, including The Kakezan Invention Hub, Underground Streets, and The Courtyard.

The “Kakezan Invention Hub” creates "invention by multiplication.”

It aims to create new value, products, and services that cannot be created by one company or one person but by "multiplying" Toyota's strengths with those of other industries.

Here, Inventors' products will be on display, and Weavers will see the actual products and exchange opinions.

The products won’t be finished products, but rather hypothetical or prototype products, which will allow Inventors to accelerate their development by receiving immediate and ongoing feedback from Weavers.

In Woven City, the city environment above ground includes three types of streets: pedestrian streets, streets where pedestrians and personal mobility coexist, and streets dedicated to automated mobility.

In addition, a fourth type of street is the "logistics street" and will run underground.

Thanks to these Underground Streets, logistics demonstrations that include an automated delivery function can be conducted regardless of weather and other environmental conditions.

Digital Twin technology will be used to explore and design the future of logistics services.

A Digital Twin digitally reproduces the real world based on collected data and allows for digital simulations to be reflected in the real world to obtain feedback, which is in turn fed back into the digital world to improve accuracy.

The Courtyard is where Inventors and Weavers will meet.

Weavers will play a key role in creating value in Woven City, using the products and services developed by Inventors and providing feedback.

For example, Inventors can use the Toyota e-Palette battery-electric vehicle as a platform and for testing.