# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十五条の七 (Article 75-7) - 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: 第七十五条の七 (Article 75-7)（本線車道の出入の方法） — address `art-75-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-7 - 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. --- ### 第七十五条の七（本線車道の出入の方法） — (Entering and Exiting Main Roadways) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-75-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-7 **第一項** 自動車は、本線車道に入ろうとする場合において、加速車線が設けられているときは、その加速車線を通行しなければならない。 art-75-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-7/par-1 A motor vehicle attempting to enter a main roadway with an acceleration lane must use the acceleration lane. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 自動車は、その通行している本線車道から出ようとする場合においては、あらかじめその前から出口に接続する車両通行帯を通行しなければならない。この場合において、減速車線が設けられているときは、その減速車線を通行しなければならない。 art-75-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-7/par-2 A motor vehicle attempting to exit a main roadway on which it is traveling must travel in the vehicle traffic lane connected to the exit before exiting the main roadway. In such a case, if the main roadway has a deceleration lane, the motor vehicle must use the deceleration lane. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第七十五条の九第一項（緊急自動車等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-9/par-1 - 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13