# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百二十一条 (Article 621) - 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: 第六百二十一条 (Article 621)（賃借人の原状回復義務） — address `art-621` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621 - 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. --- ### 第六百二十一条（賃借人の原状回復義務） — (Lessee's Obligation of Restoration) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-621 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621 **第一項** 賃借人は、賃借物を受け取った後にこれに生じた損傷（通常の使用及び収益によって生じた賃借物の損耗並びに賃借物の経年変化を除く。以下この条において同じ。）がある場合において、賃貸借が終了したときは、その損傷を原状に復する義務を負う。ただし、その損傷が賃借人の責めに帰することができない事由によるものであるときは、この限りでない。 art-621/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621/par-1 If any damage is caused to the leased thing after the lessee receives it (excluding any wear of the leased thing caused by the ordinary manner of using and making profit from it and any aging degradation of the leased thing; the same applies in this Article below), the lessee has an obligation to restore the damaged thing when the lease is terminated; provided, however, that this does not apply if the damage is caused due to any grounds not attributable to the lessee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-621/par-1: この条 → 民法 第六百二十一条 (Article 621), art-621 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百二十一条第一項（賃借人の原状回復義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621/par-1 - 民法 第千三十五条第二項（居住建物の返還等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1035/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1035/par-2 - 民法 第千四十条第二項（居住建物の返還等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040/par-2 - 民法 附則第七条第一項（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-76/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-76/art-7/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