Toyota Woven City

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Toyota launched Woven City's demonstration phase on 25 September 2025 at its former Higashi-Fuji plant in Susono. The first 'Weaver' residents — Toyota employees and their families — began moving in toward a Phase 1 target of about 300, testing autonomous mobility and service robots in the district's public space. General visitors are expected from FY2026.

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Run byToyota
Scale🧪 Pilot

Sources

↗ Woven City (operator)Official site of the organisation running the project.
↗ Toyota Global Newsroom (operator)Published 25 September 2025Official site of the organisation running the project.
↗ VOA Learning English (independent)Published 26 February 2025Independent press coverage of the robotics/AI/autonomy testbed.
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Evidence Passport · public beta 5 addressable claims, 3 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-8ab8a38705408b1b quantitative
Toyota launched Woven City's demonstration phase on 25 September 2025
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The Toyota Global Newsroom press release, dated 25 September 2025, announces the official launch of Woven City that same day: "Toyota Motor Corporation ('Toyota') and Woven by Toyota, Inc. ('WbyT') today announced the official launch of Toyota Woven City." The article also states residents have been moving in "since September 2025."
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toyota Global Newsroom (operator)
Claim 2 clm-845be9ef7de872e8 descriptive
at its former Higashi-Fuji plant in Susono
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator's own About page states that Woven City occupies the former Higashi-Fuji Plant site in Susono, which Toyota vacated after relocating operations to Tohoku following the 2011 earthquake: "...migrating its Higashi-Fuji Plant operations in Susono to Tohoku."
Caveat
This detail appears on the operator's About page rather than the front page listed as the source, and Toyota's own 2025 launch announcement names only "Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture" without mentioning the former plant.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Woven City (operator)
Claim 3 clm-107aed00c4067062 descriptive
The first 'Weaver' residents — Toyota employees and their families — began moving in
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Quote: "Since September 2025, several Toyota Group employees and their families have begun living in Woven City as the first Weavers." The article also identifies 'Weavers' as the term for residents and visitors: "The second profile consists of residents and visitors, known as Weavers."
Caveat
The source does not give a specific number of employees or families who have actually moved in.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toyota Global Newsroom (operator)
Claim 4 clm-a179f2846b043918 descriptive
autonomous mobility
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The launch article describes an autonomous delivery/mobility service running in Woven City: "Delivering shared vehicles directly to users through an autonomous service using self-driving robots (Guide Mobi)."
Caveat
The source describes this as one of several individual co-creation pilot projects rather than a single citywide autonomous-mobility system, and it does not confirm household ('in-home') robotics or hydrogen fuel cells as technologies being tested there.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toyota Global Newsroom (operator)
Claim 5 clm-5d08ad64fb8b05a2 quantitative
General visitors are expected from FY2026.
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Quote: "General visitors are planned to be welcomed beginning in fiscal year 2026." This is a forward-looking plan, matching the entry's own forward-looking wording ("are expected"); the source does not state that general visitors have actually begun visiting.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toyota Global Newsroom (operator)
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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-22-evidence-baseline effective 2026-07-16 · created 2026-08-22

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Toyota
Actor types
private
Funding model
private
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3 source dossiers

Woven City (operator) woven-city.global · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-b0437c9dd33b2f5b
Publisher
Name not classified · woven-city.global
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-16
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Official site of the organisation running the project.

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Toyota Global Newsroom (operator) global.toyota · 4 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-b64362c86393e2c2
Publisher
Name not classified · global.toyota
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-09-25
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-16
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Official site of the organisation running the project.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
VOA Learning English (independent) learningenglish.voanews.com · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-6264ae703285fd23
Publisher
Name not classified · learningenglish.voanews.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-02-26
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-16
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent press coverage of the robotics/AI/autonomy testbed.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Toyota Woven City” — Susono, Japan. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/toyota-woven-city/ (last verified 2026-07-16). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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