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The former site of Toyota Motor East Japan’s Higashi-Fuji Plant in Susono City is now home to Woven City, which “is the test course for us to evaluate and understand what [future] mobility is,” John Absmeier, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Woven by Toyota, told KJB Syndicate at a CES 2025 media briefing in Las Vegas. Phase 1 of Woven City construction is complete. In the coming months, individuals from Toyota and Toyota Group companies as well as entrepreneurs, representatives from start-up firms, academia, and others will have a hand in developing and testing novel mobility products and services at Woven City, located near Mt. Fuji. More than 100 people initially will reside at the 175-acre community. In later phases, Woven City will have around 2,000 residents. The ways in which people, goods, information, and energy can be moved on land, sea, and space will be focal points of the ever-evolving futuristic city’s activities. As a living laboratory, Woven City will help spin further development of autonomous driving and many other mobility options. As one example, Woven by Toyota recently invested more than $40 million in Interstellar Technologies Inc., a private Japanese spaceflight company, to facilitate the mass production of rockets. As technology innovation weavers, Woven City residents and visitors will help shape future mobility.
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