The city was built in Shizuoka, Japan, on the former site of subsidiary Toyota Motor East Japan Higashi-Fuji's (TMEJ’s) plant. TMEJ was founded in July 2012 when Central Motors, Kanto Auto Works and Toyota Motors Tohoku merged to make compact cars. The plant went offline at the end of 2020 as demand for small vehicles waned.

Employee residents are ‘Weavers’ and corporations are ‘Inventors’ in the new village near Mount Fuji.

Called the Toyota Woven City, the first phase of construction is now complete, and the first residents will be able to move in during the fall, Toyota's chairman, Akio Toyoda, announced on Tuesday during 2025 CES currently underway in Las Vegas.

Beginning in fall 2025, 100 residents known as “weavers” will move to the city, with that number expected to expand to 360 during phase one. Eventually, Toyota says, up to 2,000 people will reside in the city. They will primarily be employees of Toyota or Toyota’s Woven by Toyota mobility tech company.

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to move in the first 100 residents of a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan by as soon as this fall, but declined to specify how much the ambitious project is costing the company.

Toyota has completed the first phase of construction of their innovative Woven City in Japan. Around 100 residents will move in this fall and they’ll eventually be joined by an additional 260 people.

Consumer Electronics Show, Toyota announced its “prototype city of the future,” Woven City, will accept its first 100 residents in autumn. They will consist of the Japanese automaker’s employees and its subsidiary,