# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百二十五条 (Article 225) - 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: 第二百二十五条 (Article 225)（囲障の設置） — address `art-225` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十五条（囲障の設置） — (Installation of Fences) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-225 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225 **第一項** 二棟の建物がその所有者を異にし、かつ、その間に空地があるときは、各所有者は、他の所有者と共同の費用で、その境界に囲障を設けることができる。 art-225/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225/par-1 If two buildings are owned by different owners and there is an open lot between them, each owner may install a fence on the boundary, sharing the expenses with the other owner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 当事者間に協議が調わないときは、前項の囲障は、板塀又は竹垣その他これらに類する材料のものであって、かつ、高さ二メートルのものでなければならない。 art-225/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225/par-2 If no agreement is reached between the parties, the fence referred to in the preceding paragraph must be a wooden fence, a bamboo fence or a fence made of similar material and must be two meters high. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-225/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百二十五条第一項 (Article 225, paragraph (1)), art-225/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百二十五条第二項（囲障の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-225/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-225/par-2 - 民法 第二百二十六条第一項（囲障の設置及び保存の費用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-226/par-1 - 民法 第二百二十七条第一項（相隣者の一人による囲障の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-227/par-1 - 民法 第二百二十八条第一項（囲障の設置等に関する慣習） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-228/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-228/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