Japan is adding a new city to its landscape, but this human settlement is meant to be an experimental vision of the future, and it’s nearing completion.

Motor vehicle manufacturer, Toyota, is the main driving force behind Woven City, a $10-billion “smart city” near Mount Fuji in Japan, that first began construction in 2021 and is expected to be ready by the end of the year, with residents taking part in the “demonstration trials” sometime in early 2025.

The idea behind Woven City is that the 175-acre area will be a “living laboratory” with a focus on how 360 citizens will live with various types of technology such as clean energy, autonomous vehicles, robots and artificial intelligence (AI).

Each building will feature traditional Japanese woodwork and other natural elements while also incorporating futuristic technology, where the future and the past are seamlessly integrated and powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Various company technicians and researchers will eat, sleep, work and play in this sustainable and efficient urban environment.

Robots and sensor-based AI for common day chores are just a glimpse of what awaits future residents, but this seamlessly woven city may offer a lasting legacy in how our daily lives can be changed for the greater good, Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda believes.

“Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure,” he said.

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