# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — (Interacting with Other Vehicles and Streetcars at Intersections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36 **第一項** 車両等は、交通整理の行なわれていない交差点においては、次項の規定が適用される場合を除き、次の各号に掲げる区分に従い、当該各号に掲げる車両等の進行妨害をしてはならない。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-1 Unless the following paragraph applies, it is prohibited for the driver of either a vehicle or streetcar, these being classed separately as set forth in each of the following items, to obstruct the progress of another vehicle or streetcar as set forth in the item at an uncontrolled intersection: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 車両である場合　その通行している道路と交差する道路（以下「交差道路」という。）を左方から進行してくる車両及び交差道路を通行する路面電車 art-36/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-1/item-1 a vehicle must not obstruct the progress of:vehicles approaching from the left on a road intersecting the road on which the vehicle is proceeding (hereinafter referred to as an "intersecting road") and streetcars proceeding down an intersecting road; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 路面電車である場合　交差道路を左方から進行してくる路面電車 art-36/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-1/item-2 a streetcar must not obstruct the progress of:streetcars approaching from the left on an intersecting road. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 車両等は、交通整理の行なわれていない交差点においては、その通行している道路が優先道路（道路標識等により優先道路として指定されているもの及び当該交差点において当該道路における車両の通行を規制する道路標識等による中央線又は車両通行帯が設けられている道路をいう。以下同じ。）である場合を除き、交差道路が優先道路であるとき、又はその通行している道路の幅員よりも交差道路の幅員が明らかに広いものであるときは、当該交差道路を通行する車両等の進行妨害をしてはならない。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-2 At an uncontrolled intersection, a vehicle or streetcar must not obstruct the progress of other vehicles and streetcars traveling on an intersecting road that constitutes a priority road (meaning a road designated as such by road signs or markings, or a road at whose intersections a center line or vehicle traffic lanes have been established by road signs or markings in order to regulate the movement of vehicles on the road; the same applies hereinafter) or of other vehicles and streetcars traveling on an intersecting road that is clearly wider than the road on which the first vehicle or streetcar is traveling, unless the road on which the first vehicle or streetcar is traveling is also a priority road. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 車両等（優先道路を通行している車両等を除く。）は、交通整理の行なわれていない交差点に入ろうとする場合において、交差道路が優先道路であるとき、又はその通行している道路の幅員よりも交差道路の幅員が明らかに広いものであるときは、徐行しなければならない。 art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-3 Before entering an uncontrolled intersection, the driver of a vehicle or streetcar (other than a vehicle or streetcar traveling on a priority road) must drive at reduced speed if the intersecting road is a priority road or is clearly wider than the road on which that vehicle or streetcar is proceeding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 車両等は、交差点に入ろうとし、及び交差点内を通行するときは、当該交差点の状況に応じ、交差道路を通行する車両等、反対方向から進行してきて右折する車両等及び当該交差点又はその直近で道路を横断する歩行者に特に注意し、かつ、できる限り安全な速度と方法で進行しなければならない。 art-36/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-4 Before entering an intersection and when traveling through it, the driver of a vehicle or streetcar must pay particular attention to vehicles and streetcars traveling on intersecting roads, vehicles and streetcars approaching from the opposite direction and turning right, and pedestrians crossing the road at or in the immediate vicinity of the intersection, and must proceed at the safest possible speed and in the safest possible manner, in keeping with the conditions at the intersection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36/par-1: 次項 → 道路交通法 第三十六条第二項 (Article 36, paragraph (2)), art-36/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第三十条第一項第三号（追越しを禁止する場所） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-30/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-30/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 第三十六条第一項（交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-36/par-1 - 道路交通法 第三十七条の二第一項（環状交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第三十七条の二第二項（環状交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37-2/par-2 - 道路交通法 第三十七条の二第三項（環状交差点における他の車両等との関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-37-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-37-2/par-3 - 道路交通法 第四十三条第一項（指定場所における一時停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-43/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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