# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十一条 (Article 11) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": 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: 第十一条 (Article 11)（行列等の通行） — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条（行列等の通行） — (Passage of Processions and Other Groups) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11 **第一項** 学生生徒の隊列、葬列その他の行列（以下「行列」という。）及び歩行者の通行を妨げるおそれのある者で、政令で定めるものは、前条第二項の規定にかかわらず、歩道等と車道の区別のある道路においては、車道をその右側端（自転車道が設けられている車道にあつては、自転車道以外の部分の右側端。次項において同じ。）に寄つて通行しなければならない。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-1 Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, a group of students in transit, a funeral procession, or any other procession (hereinafter referred to as a "procession") or group of persons that Cabinet Order prescribes as likely to prevent pedestrians from proceeding must keep to the right edge of the roadway (or, if a roadway has a bicycle path, the part of the right edge of the roadway that is not the bicycle path; the same applies in the following paragraph) when on a road with demarcations between the sidewalk or side strip and the roadway. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の政令で定める行列以外の行列は、前条第二項の規定にかかわらず、歩道等と車道の区別のある道路において、車道を通行することができる。この場合においては、車道の右側端に寄つて通行しなければならない。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-2 Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, processions other than those that Cabinet Order prescribes as referred to in the preceding paragraph may use the roadway when on a road with demarcations between the sidewalk or side strip and the roadway. In such a case, the procession must keep to the right edge of the roadway. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 警察官は、道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るため必要があると認めるときは、第一項の行列の指揮者に対し、区間を定めて当該行列が道路又は車道の左側端（自転車道が設けられている車道にあつては、自転車道以外の部分の左側端）に寄つて通行すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-3 In order to prevent a road hazard or on finding that it is it necessary to do so in order to otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic, a police officer may order the leader of a procession as referred to in paragraph (1) to keep to the left edge of the road or roadway (or, if the roadway has a bicycle path, the part of the left edge of the roadway that is not the bicycle path), specifying the area of the road or roadway for use by the procession. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11/par-1: 前条第二項 → 道路交通法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-10/par-2 - art-11/par-1: 次項 → 道路交通法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-2 - art-11/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-1 - art-11/par-2: 前条第二項 → 道路交通法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-10/par-2 - art-11/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四条第一項（公安委員会の交通規制） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 第十条第一項（通行区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-10/par-1 - 道路交通法 第十一条第一項（行列等の通行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-1 - 道路交通法 第十一条第二項（行列等の通行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-2 - 道路交通法 第十一条第三項（行列等の通行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-11/par-3 - 道路交通法 第十三条の二第一項（歩行者用道路等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-13-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-13-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13