As an executive, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda values connections with people and places. Toyota’s Woven City, a testing site for advanced technology that opened in September, is part of that lineage. Toyoda, then president, visited Toyota Motor East Japan Inc.’s Higashi-Fuji Plant in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture. Takashi Uchiyama, then assembly section manager at the Higashi-Fuji Plant, visited Woven City in September with former plant colleagues. On Sept. 25 this year, seven years after the meeting, Woven City marked the official start of its demonstration phase.