# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（停車又は駐車の方法の特例） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（停車又は駐車の方法の特例） — (Special Rules on How to Stop and Park) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-48 **第一項** 車両は、道路標識等により停車又は駐車の方法が指定されているときは、前条の規定にかかわらず、当該方法によつて停車し、又は駐車しなければならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-48/par-1 Notwithstanding the preceding Article, if road signs or markings specify how to stop or park, the driver of a vehicle must stop or park in that way. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-47 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第十七条第一項（通行区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17/par-1 - 道路交通法 第四十九条の三第一項（時間制限駐車区間における駐車の方法等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-49-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-49-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十条の二第一項（違法停車に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十一条第一項（違法駐車に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-1 - 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項第七号（自動車の使用者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1/item-7 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の二の四第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119-2-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-2-4/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-3/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/appdx-1 --- ## 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