Toyota Initiates Construction of Smart City at the Base of Mount Fuji

Toyota starts building a high-tech city named ‘Woven City’ at the base of Mount Fuji, serving as a testing ground for AI, robotics, and autonomous driving technologies.

On February 3, Toyota, the Japanese automotive behemoth, kicked off building this futuristic city right at the base of Mount Fuji. We’re talking about a sprawling 175-acre playground called ‘Woven City’—not just any city, but a live lab for testing the wildest tech dreams: AI, robotics, and cars that drive themselves. And who’s the mastermind behind this urban experiment? None other than Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect with a knack for turning sci-fi into reality, teaming up with big names like Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. Remember when this was first teased back in January 2020? They called it ‘a prototype city of the future where all ecosystems are connected’—sounds like something out of a movie, right? At the groundbreaking, Toyota’s boss, Akio Toyoda, didn’t just shovel dirt; he laid down the vision: ‘human-centred’, ‘a living laboratory’, and ‘ever-evolving’. Because why settle for the present when you can build the future?