Toyota Unveils Woven City: The Futuristic Village Testing Tomorrow’s Mobility

Toyota takes a bold step into the future with Woven City, a living laboratory in Japan designed to test autonomous driving and next-generation technologies.

Leading automaker Toyota officially opened its new high-tech village in Japan, a pioneering project aimed at testing futuristic innovations in a controlled environment. From flying taxis to robot pets and drones that accompany residents home, Woven City provides a real-world setting where advanced ideas can be tested before reaching the mass market.

The experimental city will host around 360 Toyota employees and collaborators, who will live in smart homes within the so-called “Woven City.” According to company president Akio Toyoda, it is a testbed for the future, where inventors can evaluate their developments safely and residents participate as voluntary users.

Among the technologies to be tested are autonomous e-Palette buses, household robots capable of everyday tasks such as folding laundry, and automated logistics systems. Built on a former factory site at the base of Mount Fuji, the city’s infrastructure allows these innovations to integrate realistically into daily life, accelerating the learning and adaptation of new systems.

First announced in 2020 and now led by Daisuke Toyoda, the project aims to eventually expand the village to host 2,000 residents. Woven City stands as a true living laboratory, where each resident is both an inhabitant and a tester of future technologies, marking a milestone in applied research for mobility, robotics, and smart urban living.