Rules of the Road pertaining to bicycles

[mr.sumo.snr]

Anyone have a link for laws relating to bicycle use on Japanese roads. English/Japanese fine.

Someone who seems to give a damn asked me.


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[nice gaijin]

there are rules? Is there a particular law they are curious about, or all laws regarding bicyclists

here's a site I found just searching for 自転車の法律, it covers the main ones I knew about back in the day. http://www.edu.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/kou-ichifuku/6naiyou/chu2bouhan/12.htm

 

[Mike Cash]

J-Google 道路交通法 and 自転車. I ended up at this site, which even has illustrations.

 

[Yuta]

I don't have a link, but I know that bikes must have reflectors and a bell to be legal on roads. At least technically anyway. From what I gather this law is very rarely enforced.

 

[tigermilk]

I've taken my racing bike with me several times to Japan - good thing that's not enforced. I'm not going to put a bell and reflectors on a racing machine! I ride in Japan just like I do in the US, albeit on the other side of the road.