# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十三条の七 (Article 63-7) - 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: 第六十三条の七 (Article 63-7)（交差点における自転車の通行方法） — address `art-63-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-7 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条の七（交差点における自転車の通行方法） — (Traffic Rules for Bicycles at Intersections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-7 **第一項** 自転車は、前条に規定するもののほか、交差点を通行しようとする場合において、当該交差点又はその付近に自転車横断帯があるときは、第十七条第四項、第三十四条第一項及び第三項並びに第三十五条の二の規定にかかわらず、当該自転車横断帯を進行しなければならない。 art-63-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-7/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 17, paragraph (4), Article 34, paragraphs (1), and (3) and Article 35-2, and beyond as prescribed in the preceding Article, when proceeding through an intersection in the vicinity of a bicycle crossing lane, a person riding a bicycle must use the bicycle crossing lane. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding Article 17, paragraph (4), Article 34, paragraphs (1), and (3) and Article 35, paragraph (2), and beyond as prescribed in the preceding Article, when proceeding through an intersection in the vicinity of a bicycle crossing lane, a person riding a bicycle must use the bicycle crossing lane." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb **第二項** 普通自転車は、交差点又はその手前の直近において、当該交差点への進入の禁止を表示する道路標示があるときは、当該道路標示を越えて当該交差点に入つてはならない。 art-63-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-7/par-2 If there are road markings at or immediately in front of an intersection prohibiting standard bicycles from proceeding into the intersection, a person riding a standard bicycle must not go past those road markings and enter that intersection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63-7/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 第六十三条の六 (Article 63-6), art-63-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-6 - art-63-7/par-1: 第十七条第四項 → 道路交通法 第十七条第四項 (Article 17, paragraph (4)), art-17/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-17/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17/par-4 - art-63-7/par-1: 第三十四条第一項 → 道路交通法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-34/par-1 - art-63-7/par-1: 第三項 → 道路交通法 第三十四条第三項 (Article 34, paragraph (3)), art-34/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-34/par-3 - art-63-7/par-1: 第三十五条の二 → 道路交通法 第三十五条の二 (Article 35-2), art-35-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-35-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-35-2 ## 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 - 道路交通法 第百十条の二第三項（特定の交通の規制等の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110-2/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Article 63-7, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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