Today Tomoko and I our going to talk about cycling laws that you should know in Japan. We’ll start with the normal cycling laws and work our way up to the unique and strange cycling laws.
With my regular bike commuting videos on this channel, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about some of the cycling rules in Japan, so here it goes.. How do these cycling rules / bike commuting rules differ from your county?
Japan is a country of rules (often grey zone rules), and some of the rules for riding a bike are very different compared to other countries.
Here are some timestamps for different rules we go over
1:00 – Basic cycling laws
1:33 – Pedestrians
2:00 – Cycling on sidewalks
4:07 – Helmets
4:42 – Left side of the road / people riding on the opposite side of the road
6:15 – Brakes on bicycles
8:00 – Drinking and riding
9:25 – Bike lights
10:50 – Bikes on trains
12:28 – Start strange laws
12:40 – Bicycle registration system
14:08 – Police stops
14:40 – No cycling side by side
16:40 – 2 people on the same bike (futarinori)
17:20 – tandem bicycles
18:03 – children seats on bikes
19:09 – umbrellas while cycling
20:05 – cell phone while cycling
20:25 – music while cycling / earphones
21:50 – the strangest law (in my opinion)
Also, be sure to check out Tomoko’s channel for some awesome videos about learning Japanese
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