# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2) - 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: 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2)（横断等の禁止） — address `art-25-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条の二（横断等の禁止） — (Prohibition on Cutting Across Roads and Other Such Maneuvers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25-2 **第一項** 車両は、歩行者又は他の車両等の正常な交通を妨害するおそれがあるときは、道路外の施設若しくは場所に出入するための左折若しくは右折をし、横断し、転回し、又は後退してはならない。 art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25-2/par-1 The driver of a vehicle must not make a left or right turn, cut across a road, make a U-turn, or back up in order to enter a facility or place adjoining a road if doing so would likely obstruct the normal flow of pedestrian or other vehicle or streetcar traffic. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 車両は、道路標識等により横断、転回又は後退が禁止されている道路の部分においては、当該禁止された行為をしてはならない。 art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-25-2/par-2 The driver of a vehicle must not cut across a road, make a U-turn, or back up on a part of the road where doing so is prohibited by road signs or markings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第四十一条第三項（緊急自動車等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-41/par-3 - 道路交通法 第四十一条第四項（緊急自動車等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-41/par-4 - 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 第百十九条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-6 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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