# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（停車中の路面電車がある場合の停止又は徐行） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（停車中の路面電車がある場合の停止又は徐行） — (Stopping or Reducing Speed If Streetcars Are Stopped) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-31 **第一項** 車両は、乗客の乗降のため停車中の路面電車に追いついたときは、当該路面電車の乗客が乗降を終わり、又は当該路面電車から降りた者で当該車両の前方において当該路面電車の左側を横断し、若しくは横断しようとしているものがいなくなるまで、当該路面電車の後方で停止しなければならない。ただし、路面電車に乗降する者の安全を図るため設けられた安全地帯があるとき、又は当該路面電車に乗降する者がいない場合において当該路面電車の左側に当該路面電車から一・五メートル以上の間隔を保つことができるときは、徐行して当該路面電車の左側を通過することができる。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-31/par-1 Having caught up with a streetcar that has stopped to load or unload passengers, the driver of a vehicle must stop behind the streetcar until it finishes loading and unloading passengers and until all persons who have alighted from the streetcar have finished crossing or are no longer trying to cross ahead of the vehicle on the left side of the streetcar; provided, however, that, if there is a safety zone in place to ensure the safety of persons boarding and alighting from a streetcar or if no person is boarding or alighting from a streetcar and it is possible to maintain a distance of at least 1.5 meters from the left side of the streetcar, a vehicle may pass the streetcar on its left side at a reduced speed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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