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, Japanese automotive giant Toyota commenced the construction of a cutting-edge city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The 175-acre site, dubbed ‘Woven City’, will function as a real-world testing ground for AI, robotics, and autonomous driving technologies. Toyota has enlisted Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to lead the project, in collaboration with companies such as Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. The initiative was initially unveiled in January 2020, described as ‘a prototype city of the future where all ecosystems are connected’. Toyota President Akio Toyoda emphasized at the groundbreaking ceremony that ‘the unwavering themes of the Woven City will be ‘human-centred’, ‘a living laboratory’, and ‘ever-evolving’.