# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（交差点等への進入禁止） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条（交差点等への進入禁止） — (Prohibition on Entry into Intersections and Other Parts of the Road) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50 **第一項** 交通整理の行なわれている交差点に入ろうとする車両等は、その進行しようとする進路の前方の車両等の状況により、交差点（交差点内に道路標識等による停止線が設けられているときは、その停止線をこえた部分。以下この項において同じ。）に入つた場合においては当該交差点内で停止することとなり、よつて交差道路における車両等の通行の妨害となるおそれがあるときは、当該交差点に入つてはならない。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50/par-1 A vehicle or streetcar must not enter a controlled intersection (or any part of a road beyond a stop line indicated by road signs or markings at a controlled intersection; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) if, because of the positioning of vehicles and streetcars further ahead on the intended course, it would likely end up stopping inside the intersection and thereby obstructing other vehicles or streetcars from proceeding down an intersecting road. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 車両等は、その進行しようとする進路の前方の車両等の状況により、横断歩道、自転車横断帯、踏切又は道路標示によつて区画された部分に入つた場合においてはその部分で停止することとなるおそれがあるときは、これらの部分に入つてはならない。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50/par-2 A vehicle or streetcar must not enter a pedestrian crossing, bicycle crossing lane, railroad crossing, or part of the road demarcated with road markings if, because of the positioning of vehicles and streetcars further ahead on the intended course, it would likely end up stopping in that part of the road. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-50/par-1: この項 → 道路交通法 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十条第一項（交差点等への進入禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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