# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第九条 (Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（歩行者用道路を通行する車両の義務） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（歩行者用道路を通行する車両の義務） — (Obligations of the Drivers of Vehicles When Entering onto Pedestrian Paths) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-9 **第一項** 車両は、歩行者の通行の安全と円滑を図るため車両の通行が禁止されていることが道路標識等により表示されている道路（第十三条の二において「歩行者用道路」という。）を、前条第二項の許可を受け、又はその禁止の対象から除外されていることにより通行するときは、特に歩行者に注意して徐行しなければならない。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-9/par-1 When entering onto a road on which a road sign or marking indicates that vehicular entry has been prohibited so as to ensure the safety and fluidity of pedestrian traffic (referred to in Article 13-2 as a "pedestrian path") after obtaining the permission prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article or by reason of being exempt from that prohibition, the driver of a vehicle must be particularly careful of pedestrians and drive at a reduced speed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: 第十三条の二 → 道路交通法 第十三条の二 (Article 13-2), art-13-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-13-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-13-2 - art-9/par-1: 前条第二項 → 道路交通法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-8/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四条第一項（公安委員会の交通規制） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/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