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

With the first phase of construction complete, the private city at the base of Mt. Fuji will welcome around 100 Toyota employees this fall.

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 has completed construction of the first phase of its experimental Woven City at the foot of Mt Fuji and people will start moving in in fall 2025

Toyota’s ambitious Woven City project, described as a futuristic "living laboratory," is nearing completion on the site of a former car factory in Japan.

Toyota Motor Corporation is moving ahead with its vision of the future where it isn’t a mix of Camrys and Corollas, or hybrids and EVs, but one of “inventors” and “weavers’ in a community centered around mobility.

Toyota gave an update on Woven City at CES on Monday, saying the "living laboratory" is set to welcome its first residents in 2025.

The Toyota Woven City, being built at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, is almost ready to house its first residents Approximately 360 residents will move in later this year, and when complete, the city will house more than 2,