# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十三条の八 (Article 63-8) - 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: 第六十三条の八 (Article 63-8)（自転車の通行方法の指示） — address `art-63-8` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-8 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条の八（自転車の通行方法の指示） — (Bicycle Traffic Instructions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-8 **第一項** 警察官等は、第六十三条の六若しくは前条第一項の規定に違反して通行している自転車の運転者に対し、これらの規定に定める通行方法により当該自転車を通行させ、又は同条第二項の規定に違反して通行している普通自転車の運転者に対し、当該普通自転車を歩道により通行させるべきことを指示することができる。 art-63-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-8/par-1 An officer may instruct a person riding a bicycle that is proceeding in violation of Article 63-6 or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to comply with the traffic rules prescribed therein, and may instruct a person riding a standard bicycle that is proceeding in violation of paragraph (2) of that Article to travel on the sidewalk. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63-8/par-1: 第六十三条の六 → 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-63-8/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第六十三条の七第一項 (Article 63-7, paragraph (1)), 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 - art-63-8/par-1: 同条第二項 → 道路交通法 第六十三条の七第二項 (Article 63-7, paragraph (2)), 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 ## 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七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-7 --- ## 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