Fujisawa

🇯🇵 Japan

🌍 East Asia

🏢 Coastal

🔗 Website

About

Fujisawa, located in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, is a coastal city known for its quality of life and innovative urban development. It gained global attention through the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town project, integrating renewable energy, smart grids, and community services. With strong transport links and a focus on environmental sustainability, Fujisawa promotes resilient, citizen-centered urban planning.

Additional Information

Fujisawa City (population ~450000) is located in Kanagawa Prefecture, 50 km south of Tokyo, and is home to the internationally referenced Fujisawa SST smart city development. The city combines a coastal setting with a strong innovation ecosystem, partnering with national agencies and universities for ongoing smart city research and the replication of tested urban solutions.

City Snapshot

Population

439728

Area

70 km²

Density

6282/km²

Altitude

43 m

Weather

Temperatures (°C)

Rainfall (mm)

Strategic Vision and Achivements

Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (Fujisawa SST) is one of Japan’s flagship smart city developments, co-created by Panasonic and the city government. The SST integrates solar energy, smart grids, EV charging, and digital community services across a 19-hectare residential district, targeting net-zero CO₂ emissions and a 70% reduction in water use. It serves as a global model for human-centric smart city governance, aligned with Japan’s Society 5.0 vision.

Challenges

Challenges are defined by cities to clearly express the urban issues they are facing. They describe specific needs and contexts, helping innovators, companies, and organizations understand the problem and propose relevant, tailored solutions.

Smart Parks & Incident Management

✅ Finalized

🏞️ Public Spaces

Fujisawa City faced a surge in maintenance reports for its public parks, but fragmented data made it difficult to prioritize interventions. This challenge introduced a mobile reporting system for staff and citizens, integrated into a smart city hypervisor. By centralizing GPS-tagged incident reports and applying AI-driven analytics, the city transitioned from reactive repairs to proactive, data-driven management. This optimizes municipal resources while ensuring higher safety and quality of life in urban green spaces.

Experimental Capacity

Pilots

Pilots are real-life implementations of selected solutions in cities. They allow stakeholders to test ideas in real conditions, measure their impact, learn from the results, and determine whether the solution can be improved, replicated, or scaled to other contexts.

Smart Parks Monitoring and Incident Management in Fujisawa