# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十三条の六 (Article 63-6) - 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: 第六十三条の六 (Article 63-6)（自転車の横断の方法） — address `art-63-6` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-6 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条の六（自転車の横断の方法） — (Crossing Roads on a Bicycle) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-6 **第一項** 自転車は、道路を横断しようとするときは、自転車横断帯がある場所の付近においては、その自転車横断帯によつて道路を横断しなければならない。 art-63-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-6/par-1 When crossing the road in the vicinity of a bicycle crossing lane, a person riding a bicycle must use the bicycle crossing lane. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四十一条の二第四項（消防用車両の優先等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-41-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-41-2/par-4 - 道路交通法 第六十三条の七第一項（交差点における自転車の通行方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-7/par-1 - 道路交通法 第六十三条の八第一項（自転車の通行方法の指示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-8/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13