# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十三条の三 (Article 63-3) - 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: 第六十三条の三 (Article 63-3)（自転車道の通行区分） — address `art-63-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-3 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条の三（自転車道の通行区分） — (Traffic Distribution on Bicycle Paths) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-3 **第一項** 車体の大きさ及び構造が内閣府令で定める基準に適合する自転車で、他の車両を牽引していないもの（以下この節において「普通自転車」という。）は、自転車道が設けられている道路においては、自転車道以外の車道を横断する場合及び道路の状況その他の事情によりやむを得ない場合を除き、自転車道を通行しなければならない。 art-63-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-3/par-1 When on a road with a bicycle path, a person riding a bicycle whose body size and structure conforms to the standards that Cabinet Office Order prescribes (hereinafter referred to in this Section as "standard bicycle") and that is not towing another vehicle must proceed down the bicycle path, except when crossing a part of the roadway other than the bicycle path or unless road conditions or other circumstances compel the rider to do otherwise. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-8 --- ## 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-20261013T073427-005, 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