# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（道路外に出る場合の方法） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（道路外に出る場合の方法） — (How to Exit the Road) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25 **第一項** 車両は、道路外に出るため左折するときは、あらかじめその前からできる限り道路の左側端に寄り、かつ、徐行しなければならない。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-1 To make a left turn and exit the road, a driver must bring a vehicle as close as possible to the left edge of the road beforehand and reduce speed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 車両（特定小型原動機付自転車等及びトロリーバスを除く。）は、道路外に出るため右折するときは、あらかじめその前からできる限り道路の中央（当該道路が一方通行となつているときは、当該道路の右側端）に寄り、かつ、徐行しなければならない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-2 To make a right turn and exit the road, a driver must bring a vehicle (other than a specified small motorized bicycle or light road vehicle, or a trolleybus) as close as possible to the center of the road beforehand (or as close as possible to the right edge of the road, if the road is a one-way street) and drive at reduced speed. machine translation, not official **第三項** 道路外に出るため左折又は右折をしようとする車両が、前二項の規定により、それぞれ道路の左側端、中央又は右側端に寄ろうとして手又は方向指示器による合図をした場合においては、その後方にある車両は、その速度又は方向を急に変更しなければならないこととなる場合を除き、当該合図をした車両の進路の変更を妨げてはならない。 art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-3 Once the driver of a vehicle indicates the intention to make a left or right turn in order to exit the road and brings the vehicle towards the left edge, center, or right edge of the road pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, the driver of a vehicle behind the turning vehicle must not obstruct the course of the turning vehicle unless avoiding this would make the driver have to suddenly change speed or direction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-3: 前二項 → 道路交通法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-1 - art-25/par-3: 前二項 → 道路交通法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第十八条第一項（左側寄り通行等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-18/par-1 - 道路交通法 第二十条第三項（車両通行帯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-20/par-3 - 道路交通法 第二十五条第三項（道路外に出る場合の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25/par-3 - 道路交通法 第二十八条第二項（追越しの方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-28/par-2 - 道路交通法 第四十一条第一項（緊急自動車等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-41/par-1 - 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/ja/road-traffic-act/art-41-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-41-2/par-4 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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-20261013T074321-003, 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