Redefining What’s Possible, through Kakezan.
How Do We Invent with “Kakezan” at Woven City?
Woven City embraces co-creation, bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility. While product development efforts are typically limited to ideating and testing in a lab or office-like setting, we're able to seamlessly integrate this process into daily life at Woven City.
Woven City empowers Inventors with its city-like test course designed to nurture invention and accelerate development. This environment frees Inventors from the limitations of conventional innovation methods by seeing how their products and services integrate into day-to-day life. Residents and visitors, known as Weavers, will use the products and services to provide real-time feedback and accelerate Inventors' development.
Woven City aims to create new value that cannot be created by one company or one person alone, by combining Toyota's manufacturing expertise and the various strengths and expertise of each Inventor. This is what Woven City aims to invent with "kakezan".
Mechanism of Woven City
The Inventors of Woven City are offered access to Toyota’s co-creation service and Woven by Toyota’s advanced software capabilities utilizing cutting-edge technologies to support the product development cycle from exploration to experimentation to evaluation. One such service is the Digital Twin, which provides a virtual simulation of Woven City for Inventors to model scenarios and conduct testing of products and services on a digital platform.
Furthermore, Woven City is a test course for mobility. Here, Inventors test various ideas and incorporate feedback from Weavers to create the future fabric of life.
Example features of Woven City’s test course for mobility
Three-type Road System
Ground-level roads are classified into three types — one exclusively for pedestrians, one shared by pedestrians and personal mobility, and one dedicated to vehicles.
Underground Road Network
A fourth, underground road enables testing unaffected by weather or temperature conditions.
Traffic Signals
A system that coordinates traffic signals with mobility, advancing safety through a three-pronged approach (mobility, people and infrastructure).
Multifunctional Poles
Serving as both streetlights and traffic signal posts, these poles can also flexibly host sensors and cameras used in testing and co-creation activities.
*Winner of the Good Design Award 2025
A Sneak Peek into Woven City’s Initiatives
Toyota and Toyota Group Initiatives
Toyota and Woven by Toyota, aiming to transform into a mobility company, will not only promote the development of Woven City as a mobility test course for co-creation, but also focus on developing and demonstrating the four mobility areas of people, goods, information, and energy as inventors.
Other Toyota Group Company Inventors: Toyota Industries Corporation, JTEKT Corporation, Toyota Auto Body Corporation, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Aisin Corporation, Denso Corporation, Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Toyota Motor East Japan Corporation, Toyoda Gosei Corporation, Toyota Motor Kyushu Corporation
Co-creation theme by Inventor
| Inventor | Theme |
|---|---|
| Daikin Industries, Ltd. | Testing "pollen-less spaces" and "personalized functional environments" |
| DyDo DRINCO, INC. | Creating new value through innovative vending machine concepts |
| NISSIN FOOD PRODUCTS CO., LTD. | Creating and evaluating food environments to inspire new 'food cultures' |
| UCC Japan Co., Ltd. | Conducting a proof-of-concept study to demonstrate the effect of coffee on creativity and productivity |
| Zoshinkai Holdings Inc. | Leveraging data to realize innovative educational methods and new learning environments |
| Interstellar Technologies Inc. | Developing a robust rocket production system* |
| Kyoritsu Seiyaku Corporation | Finding new ways to enhance human-pet coexistence |
| Naoto Inti Raymi | Developing future-oriented soundscapes |
* Interstellar Technologies will conduct its work outside Woven City, with development support provided by Toyota and WbyT in the form of engineering know-how and technical staff