Woven City, Toyota’s futuristic community that will have robots and flying cars, is set to welcome its first residents this month. Toyota announced the completion of the first phase at CES 2025, one of the world’s biggest tech events, earlier this year. However, the official launch of the first phase is scheduled for the end of September 25.
The incredible city, located at Mount Fuji in Japan, aims to be a place where people can invent and develop products and enjoy life. Akio Toydo, Toyota’s character, describes Woven City as a “test course for mobility” and a place to “develop any number of solutions.”
Preparations to introduce soon-to-be residents, also known as “Weavers,” took place in May. They were invited to the Fuji Susono Technical Centre, across the road from Woven City, for an event that allowed them to understand and experience what it would be like to live in the city.
People sat on an artificial lawn with cushions, taking notes while following a presentation about the City. There was also an interactive session that allowed the future residents to get a feel for what it would be like to live there.
Panels displaying the city and its surrounding environment, were placed around the venue, as well as the robots that will be found in Woven once it opens, reports Toyota Times.
Toyota’s chairman also revealed at CES that wheelchair racecars, interactive pet robots, and flying cars are part of the innovative city’s future plans.
Woven City will welcome 360 Weavers for the official launch this month, the residents will be made up of Toyoto Group employees and their families. Toyoto plans to increase the city’s population to up to 2,000 in the future.
The £7.5 billion city was designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his studio, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), along with Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei which carried out the detailed design for the first phase’s buildings in collaboration with Obayashi Corporation.
Woven will be open to the general public from the 2026 fiscal year.