# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（横断の方法） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（横断の方法） — (Crossing Roads) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-12 **第一項** 歩行者等は、道路を横断しようとするときは、横断歩道がある場所の付近においては、その横断歩道によつて道路を横断しなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-12/par-1 When a pedestrian, etc. is to cross a road in the vicinity of a place where there is a pedestrian crossing, the pedestrian, etc. must cross the road by that pedestrian crossing. machine translation, not official **第二項** 歩行者等は、交差点において道路標識等により斜めに道路を横断することができることとされている場合を除き、斜めに道路を横断してはならない。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-12/par-2 A pedestrian, etc. must not cross a road diagonally, except where it is provided at an intersection by a road sign or marking that a road may be crossed diagonally. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 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 第十五条第一項（通行方法の指示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-001, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-002, translated 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