Toyota Woven Metropolis Formally Launches as a Take a look at Course for the Way forward for Mobility

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• 20 inventors start Kakezan (‘multiplication’) co-creation
• Singer-songwriter Naoto Inti Raymi joins Woven Metropolis as an Inventor
• The primary group of residents, generally known as Weavers, formally transfer in

TOKYO, Japan — Toyota Motor Company (“Toyota”) and Woven by Toyota, Inc. (“WbyT”) as we speak introduced the official launch of Toyota Woven Metropolis (“Woven Metropolis”), first unveiled at CES 2020 and collectively developed by the 2 firms. To mark the event, Toyota and WbyT hosted a launch occasion in Susono Metropolis, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, with key stakeholders. With residents starting to maneuver in and accomplice firms beginning co-creation, Woven Metropolis takes its first steps as a real-world check course for mobility and a key driver of Toyota’s transformation right into a mobility firm.

Central to Woven Metropolis are two profiles of contributors.

The primary are generally known as Inventors. These are enterprises, startups, entrepreneurs, analysis establishments, and different innovators creating and testing services and products in Woven Metropolis. By combining Toyota’s manufacturing experience, WbyT’s superior software program capabilities, and the distinctive strengths of every Inventor, Woven Metropolis seeks to foster Kakezan―a Japanese idea of “multiplication,” the place new innovation and societal worth emerge from the convergence of various concepts and capabilities.

Among the many Inventors, singer-songwriter Naoto Inti Raymi will be part of as the primary artist, main sound-related Kakezan co-creation in Woven Metropolis and bringing a brand new inventive dimension to the undertaking. He produced the Woven Metropolis Anthem and the undertaking’s audio emblem, and his participation brings the overall variety of Inventors to twenty.

Woven Metropolis has additionally launched its accelerator program with an open name for Inventors on September 8, starting with the “Woven Metropolis Problem: Hack the Mobility” competitors. This system invitations startups, entrepreneurs, universities, and analysis establishments worldwide to suggest concepts for Kakezan co-creation, with functions open till October 14, 2025.

The second profile consists of residents and guests, generally known as Weavers. By experiencing the services and products first hand and offering suggestions, Weavers will play an important position in shaping new, significant improvements. Since September 2025, a number of Toyota Group staff and their households have begun residing in Woven Metropolis as the primary Weavers, with Section 1 finally anticipated to accommodate about 300 residents. Basic guests are deliberate to be welcomed starting in fiscal 12 months 2026.

To rejoice the official launch and mark the beginning of life at Woven Metropolis, Toyota and WbyT as we speak hosted the “Woven Metropolis Official Launch: Weaving the Future―Day 01” occasion that gathered the primary neighborhood of Inventors, Weavers, and companions. On the occasion, leaders from each firms expressed gratitude to everybody who has supported the Woven Metropolis imaginative and prescient and took part within the problem to drive the way forward for motion and improve well-being for all. Additionally at as we speak’s occasion, Naoto Inti Raymi debuted Woven Metropolis’s anthem “Woven Metropolis.”

Akio Toyoda, Chairman of Toyota Motor Company and Grasp Weaver of Woven Metropolis mentioned on the occasion: “That is Grasp Weaver Akio Toyoda. What we’ll spark right here at Woven Metropolis is Kakezan (‘multiplication’)! No single firm can create significant Kakezan by itself; it takes not less than two. So let’s collect our efforts, and with them our smiles. With loads of smiles, doesn’t it really feel like we actually can weave a brighter future collectively?”