# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百十条 (Article 210) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二百十条 (Article 210)（公道に至るための他の土地の通行権） — address `art-210` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百十条（公道に至るための他の土地の通行権） — (Right-of-Way over Other Land for Access to Public Roads) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210 **第一項** 他の土地に囲まれて公道に通じない土地の所有者は、公道に至るため、その土地を囲んでいる他の土地を通行することができる。 art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210/par-1 An owner of land that is surrounded by other land and has no access to a public road may pass through the other land that surrounds that owner's land to reach a public road. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 池沼、河川、水路若しくは海を通らなければ公道に至ることができないとき、又は崖があって土地と公道とに著しい高低差があるときも、前項と同様とする。 art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210/par-2 The preceding paragraph also applies if an owner cannot reach a public road without passing over a pond, lake, river, waterway, or sea, or if there is an extreme difference in height between the land and the public road on account of a cliff. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-210/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百十条第一項 (Article 210, paragraph (1)), art-210/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百十条第二項（公道に至るための他の土地の通行権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-210/par-2 - 民法 第二百十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-211/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-211/par-1 - 民法 第二百十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-211/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-211/par-2 - 民法 第二百十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-212/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-212/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11