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On January 7 Japan time, Chairman Toyoda took the stage for a press conference at CES 2025, a global technology trade show held in Las Vegas.
Some five years have passed since Akio, then Toyota’s president, spoke at the 2020 event to present his vision for Woven City. With construction of the city’s first phase now complete, preparations are in full swing to begin testing various technologies.
Chairman Toyoda describes Woven City as a “test course for mobility.” The concept is “human-centered,” a “living laboratory,” an “ever-evolving city.”
Below, we share the full text of Chairman Toyoda’s speech outlining how these ideas will be tested in the real world.
Five years on, vision becomes reality
Chairman Toyoda
Good afternoon, everyone… and thank you so much for being here today…and for bringing so many cameras! I feel like Taylor Swift!
But seriously, I’ll bet that when you hear the name Toyota… you probably think of words like dependability, value, or affordable transportation…
In fact, I’m pretty sure that “prototype town of the future” isn’t the first thing that pops into your head! But five years ago… on this very stage… in this very room… Apparently I was wearing the same tie…
Then-President Toyoda on stage at CES2020, five years ago.
I announced that Toyota… would be building exactly that. We call it Woven City.
Located at the base of beautiful Mt. Fuji in Japan… Woven City is more than just a place to live, work and play… Woven City is a place where people can invent and develop all kinds of new products and ideas…
It’s a living laboratory where the residents are willing participants… giving inventors the opportunity to freely test their ideas in a secure, real-life setting…
A place where we can welcome people and partners from around the world to join us in our quest to imagine and improve how all of us live in the future.
Well today, I am happy to announce that we have officially completed phase one of our Woven City campus…
2,000 residents start moving in this fall
Chairman Toyoda
This year, residents will begin moving in… as we slowly bring our Woven City to life. As each phase is complete, our population will eventually grow to around 2,000 people… and will include: Toyota employees and their families…, retired people…, retailers…, visiting scientists…, industry partners…, entrepreneurs…, academics…
and of course… their pets! This is mine… Her name is Minnie. And she’ll fit right in because all transportation in Woven City will be low to zero emission!
That’s because sustainability is one of our major priorities… and we are proud to have received Japan’s first LEED Platinum certification for a community… the highest standard awarded.
*LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. A system for evaluating the environmental performance of buildings and cities, administered by the U.S. Green Building Council. Woven City received its certification in March 2023.
We plan to focus on 4 key areas of research and innovation: the mobility of people… goods… information… and energy.
We think of Woven City as a “test course for mobility”… where we can develop any number of solutions…
From personal mobility devices… like a wheelchair racecar…because everybody should experience the joy of going fast… to drones that safely escort you home at night… to interactive pet robots that provide support and companionship for the elderly… to flying cars like this one… made by our friends at Joby, making the trip from Woven City to Tokyo… fast and traffic free!
And for partners like Joby, we’ve even transformed one of our former factory buildings into a laboratory big enough to house an airplane!
So for any of you inventors out there looking for a really big space to work in… please keep us in mind!
