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AokippuJapanese traffic fines, points and payment deadlines

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Bicycles and blue tickets

What the statutes state, and what is still unconfirmed, kept apart.

The two tickets

Blue ticket, red ticket — the colour IS the legal category

aokippu 青切符 (blue)

hansokukin 反則金

Road Traffic Act, Art. 125 onward (the traffic-violation notification system)

An administrative track. Pay the stated amount within the deadline and no prosecution follows. It is not a criminal record.

akakippu 赤切符 (red)

bakkin 罰金

Road Traffic Act, Chapter 8 (penal provisions)

A criminal track. A court sets the amount within the statutory range. There is no fixed schedule to read it off.

Two tables

Bicycles and blue tickets

What the statutes state, and what is still unconfirmed, kept apart.

道路交通法施行令 別表第六(第四十五条関係)

「原付等」とは、小型特殊自動車、原動機付自転車及び軽車両(重被牽けん引車を除く。)をいう。

別表第六 備考 三 4

道路交通法施行令 別表第一(第十七条の三関係)

「原付車」とは、小型特殊自動車及び原動機付自転車をいう。

別表第一 備考 二 4

The two tables do not partition vehicles the same way

That is as far as the statutes go. Bicycles are priced in the moped-etc tier of the amount table, in every category. The abandoned-parking table's own definition of its bottom tier carries no light-vehicle clause at all. Whether the operational rollout described in 2026 media coverage rests on this same basis is NOT something the material this site read can confirm — and an unconfirmed thing is not written here as a confirmed one.

Amount table

Cabinet Order, Appended Table 6 — hansokukin amounts

  • Conduct · 一

    積載物重量制限超過(普通等十割以上)
    普通車
    ¥35,000
    二輪車
    ¥30,000
    原付等
    ¥25,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 二

    速度超過(高速三十五以上四十未満)
    大型車
    ¥40,000
    普通車
    ¥35,000
    二輪車
    ¥30,000
    原付等
    ¥20,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 三

    積載物重量制限超過(五割以上十割未満)
    大型車
    ¥40,000
    普通車
    ¥30,000
    二輪車
    ¥25,000
    原付等
    ¥20,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 四

    速度超過(高速三十以上三十五未満)又は積載物重量制限超過(五割未満)
    大型車
    ¥30,000
    普通車
    ¥25,000
    二輪車
    ¥20,000
    原付等
    ¥15,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 五

    放置駐車違反(駐停車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等))
    大型車又は重被牽けん引車
    ¥27,000
    普通車
    ¥20,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥12,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 六

    速度超過(二十五以上三十未満)又は携帯電話使用等(保持)
    大型車
    ¥25,000
    普通車
    ¥18,000
    二輪車
    ¥15,000
    原付等
    ¥12,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 七

    放置駐車違反(駐停車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等以外))
    大型車又は重被牽けん引車
    ¥25,000
    普通車
    ¥18,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥10,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 八

    放置駐車違反(駐車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等))
    大型車又は重被牽けん引車
    ¥23,000
    普通車
    ¥17,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥11,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 九

    放置駐車違反(駐車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等以外))
    大型車又は重被牽けん引車
    ¥21,000
    普通車
    ¥15,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥9,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十

    速度超過(二十以上二十五未満)又は大型自動二輪車等乗車方法違反
    大型車
    ¥20,000
    普通車
    ¥15,000
    二輪車
    ¥12,000
    原付等
    ¥10,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十一

    駐停車違反(駐停車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等))
    大型車
    ¥17,000
    普通車
    ¥14,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥9,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十二

    速度超過(十五以上二十未満)又は遮断踏切立入り
    大型車
    ¥15,000
    普通車
    ¥12,000
    二輪車
    ¥9,000
    原付等
    ¥7,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十三

    駐停車違反(駐停車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等以外))
    大型車
    ¥15,000
    普通車
    ¥12,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥7,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十四

    駐停車違反(駐車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等))
    大型車
    ¥14,000
    普通車
    ¥12,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥8,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十五

    駐停車違反(駐車禁止場所等(高齢運転者等専用場所等以外))
    大型車又は重被牽けん引車
    ¥12,000
    普通車
    ¥10,000
    二輪車又は原付等
    ¥6,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十六

    速度超過(十五未満)、信号無視(赤色等)
    Show the remaining conduct

    通行区分違反、高速自動車国道等車間距離不保持、追越し違反、踏切不停止等、交差点安全進行義務違反、環状交差点安全進行義務違反、横断歩行者等妨害等、自動車等整備不良(制動装置等)、作動状態記録装置不備、安全運転義務違反、自動運行装置使用条件違反、本線車道横断等禁止違反又は高速自動車国道等運転者遵守事項違反

    大型車
    ¥12,000
    普通車
    ¥9,000
    二輪車
    ¥7,000
    原付等
    ¥6,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十七

    信号無視(点滅)、通行禁止違反
    Show the remaining conduct

    歩行者用道路徐行違反、歩行者等側方安全通過義務違反、急ブレーキ禁止違反、法定横断等禁止違反、路面電車後方不停止、優先道路通行車妨害等、環状交差点通行車妨害等、徐行場所違反、指定場所一時不停止等、積載物大きさ制限超過、積載方法制限超過、自動車等整備不良(尾灯等)、幼児等通行妨害、安全地帯徐行違反又は免許条件違反

    大型車
    ¥9,000
    普通車
    ¥7,000
    二輪車
    ¥6,000
    原付等
    ¥5,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十八

    被側方通過車義務違反、通行帯違反
    Show the remaining conduct

    路線バス等優先通行帯違反、道路外出右左折合図車妨害、指定横断等禁止違反、車間距離不保持、進路変更禁止違反、追い付かれた車両の義務違反、乗合自動車発進妨害、割込み等、交差点右左折等合図車妨害、指定通行区分違反、交差点優先車妨害、緊急車妨害等、交差点等進入禁止違反、無灯火、減光等義務違反、合図不履行、合図制限違反、警音器吹鳴義務違反、乗車積載方法違反、定員外乗車、牽けん引違反、軽車両整備不良、自転車制動装置不良、泥はね運転、転落等防止措置義務違反、転落積載物等危険防止措置義務違反、安全不確認ドア開放等、停止措置義務違反、騒音運転等、初心運転者等保護義務違反、公安委員会遵守事項違反、消音器不備、最低速度違反、本線車道通行車妨害、本線車道緊急車妨害、牽けん引自動車本線車道通行帯違反、故障車両表示義務違反又は仮免許練習標識表示義務違反

    大型車
    ¥7,000
    普通車又は二輪車
    ¥6,000
    原付等
    ¥5,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 十九

    通行許可条件違反、歩道徐行等義務違反
    Show the remaining conduct

    路側帯進行方法違反、並進禁止違反、軌道敷内違反、道路外出右左折方法違反、交差点右左折方法違反、環状交差点左折等方法違反、軽車両乗車積載制限違反、制限外許可条件違反、原付等牽けん引違反、運行記録計不備、自転車道通行義務違反、初心運転者標識表示義務違反、聴覚障害者標識表示義務違反又は本線車道出入方法違反

    大型車
    ¥6,000
    普通車又は二輪車
    ¥4,000
    原付等
    ¥3,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
  • Conduct · 二十

    警音器使用制限違反又は免許証不携帯
    大型車、普通車、二輪車又は原付等
    ¥3,000
    Track
    Blue ticket (hansokukin)
In force
道路交通法施行令, consolidation in force 2026-05-21 — 別表第六 (反則金の額)
Source
道路交通法施行令 別表第六(第四十五条関係)
status
transcribed, not signed off

The sourced mechanism

Bicycles are priced, and the table says so in its own notes

The Cabinet Order's amount table defines its smallest vehicle tier in a note attached to the table itself, and that definition expressly brings light vehicles into it. A bicycle is a light vehicle. So bicycles are priced in that tier, and they are priced in every one of the schedule's categories — not a subset.

This is a definition read from the table's own remarks, not an inference from the absence of an exclusion. That distinction matters: the table did not simply fail to exclude bicycles, it affirmatively included them.

Separately, the eligibility gate that decides who can use the blue-ticket route at all does not exclude cyclists by vehicle type. Its alcohol ground is drafted in a way that expressly brings bicycles back into scope, which is a second, independent indication that cyclists were contemplated by the route rather than left outside it.

The ceiling side

The ceiling table folds light vehicles into its smallest tier — with one exception

The Act's ceiling table, which constrains the amounts, folds light vehicles into its smallest class for most of the categories it covers.

One category does not. The overloading category is drafted more narrowly and does not reach light vehicles. That was read from the row rather than assumed from the pattern, and it is stated here because a page describing the general rule alone would be wrong about that one category.

The two tables also partition vehicles on different schemes overall, and neither instrument states how the schemes correspond. This site does not convert between them, here or anywhere else.

And where they are not priced

A parked bicycle is not in the abandoned-parking schedule

The abandoned-parking charge — the separate register billed to a vehicle's registered user — has its own schedule with its own vehicle definitions. Its smallest tier is defined without any light-vehicle clause.

Compared side by side, the contrast is sharp: one table's smallest tier expressly includes light vehicles, the other's expressly does not mention them. A bicycle is therefore priced across the hansokukin schedule and is not priced in the abandoned-parking one.

The open question

What this site cannot tell you

Everything above is read from the instruments. What is NOT settled is how it relates to the widely reported rollout of blue tickets for cyclists.

The tables read this way in the revisions this site transcribed. Whether that reflects a change in the law, or an operational decision to start using a route the law already provided, is not something the material this site read can determine. No evidence either way was found.

So this page states the mechanism and stops. It does not confirm the media account, and it does not contradict it — it says which of the two questions it can answer and which it cannot. An unconfirmed thing is not written here as a confirmed one.

What this system does not cover

What this site does not answer, and why

These are content, not gaps. Each is a bounded statement that a NAMED instrument does not contain something — never a claim that "the law is silent".

Death and injury by driving is a different Act

The Act on Punishment of Acts Causing Death or Injury by Driving was amended by the same Act that amended the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 52 of 2026), but its offences and penalties are its own. This site has not transcribed them. A case involving death or injury is outside this calculator.

  • 自動車運転死傷行為処罰法, in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

自動車運転死傷行為処罰法 (death/injury-by-driving offences) is vendored in the corpus and was amended by the SAME act that amended 道路交通法 on 2026-07-21 (令和八年法律第五十二号) — but its own offence/penalty structure is a SEPARATE instrument and is not transcribed into this payload.

The summary-trial procedure is a different Act

The Summary Trial Procedure Act for traffic cases governs HOW a minor traffic case is disposed of. It is procedural and carries no amount of its own, so it is not modelled here. Its ceiling and this offence's own ceiling are two different figures.

  • 交通事件即決裁判手続法, in force 2026-05-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

交通事件即決裁判手続法 (the summary-trial PROCEDURE for minor traffic offences) is vendored — procedural, carries no rate figure of its own, and is not modelled here.

Minimum speeds are not transcribed

道路交通法施行令Minimum speeds are set by Cabinet Order Art. 27. Arts. 11 and 12 only point at it ("the next Article" / "the preceding Article"); the figure itself is not within what this site transcribed. It was read, and not taken.

  • 道路交通法施行令 (Cabinet Order No. 270 of 1960), 第二十七条 — consolidation in force 2026-05-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

最低速度 (minimum speed, expressway mainline — 第二十七条 and neighbours, referenced in passing by 第十一条/第十二条's own cross-references) is a separate figure this fixture did not extract.

Not every Chapter 8 article is covered

道路交通法Chapter 8 of the Road Traffic Act (Arts. 117–122) holds more articles than the ones this site joined to the hansokukin ceilings. Only the articles that Appended Table 2's own rows name are transcribed. Arts. 117 and 122, and Arts. 118-2 and 118-3, are referenced by no ceiling row and are not transcribed.

  • 道路交通法 (Act No. 105 of 1960), 第八章 罰則(第百十七条―第百二十二条) — consolidation in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

Chapter 8 (第百十七条~第百二十二条) has MORE articles than the eight this fixture joined to jpFinesCeiling. Only the ones 【道路交通法】別表第二's own rows reference by locator are transcribed (第百十八条, 第百十八条の二/三 excluded, 第百十九条, 第百十九条の二の四, 第百十九条の三, 第百二十条, 第百二十一条); 第百十七条 and 第百二十二条 (and 第百十八条の二/三) are not referenced by any 反則金 ceiling row and are not transcribed here.

For a juvenile, the family court sets the amount

道路交通法Under Road Traffic Act Art. 130-2(1), second sentence, where a case reaches a family-court hearing the amount is set by that court within the Act's own Appended Table 2 ceiling. There is no fixed schedule figure to read off, so this site states none.

  • 道路交通法 (Act No. 105 of 1960), 第百三十条の二第一項後段 — consolidation in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

第百三十条の二第一項後段: when a juvenile's case reaches a family-court hearing, the court MAY order 反則金 payment on its own schedule, and the AMOUNT is then set by the family court itself — "その反則金の額は、第百二十五条第三項の規定にかかわらず、【道路交通法】別表第二に定める金額の範囲内において家庭裁判所が定める額とする" — within 【道路交通法】別表第二's ceiling, but not read off any fixed schedule figure this fixture can transcribe as a number.

The mitigated floor is not stated

Penal Code Art. 15 carries a proviso: on statutory mitigation grounds a court CAN sentence below the floor. This site states only the un-mitigated floor and does not model when mitigation applies.

  • Penal Code, Art. 15, proviso

Expressway mainline default speeds are out of scope

The default speed on an expressway mainline is set by Cabinet Order Art. 27, which this site has not transcribed. The general-road figure is never reused for it. On an expressway, enter the posted limit.

  • Cabinet Order, Art. 27

No alcohol or BAC classification

This site's calculators do not classify alcohol readings. There is no verified threshold table here to drive one, and producing a number without it would be the opposite of accuracy.

  • Not transcribed into this site's payload

No "will I lose my licence" prediction

Suspension and revocation from accumulated points are set by the Cabinet Order's Appended Table 3 together with Road Traffic Act Art. 103. Both were read; neither is modelled. There is no such calculator here.

  • Cabinet Order, Appended Table 3 / Road Traffic Act, Art. 103

No foreign-licence or visitor-specific rules

Nothing in the material this site read carries rules specific to foreign licences or cross-border drivers. This English bundle is a translation of the same claims and makes no additional ones.

  • Not transcribed into this site's payload

Where to physically pay is not stated here

What the statutes give is the deadline and the no-instalments rule. Counters, banks and opening hours are not sourced, so they are not written. Follow the instructions printed on your own notice.

  • Road Traffic Act Arts. 128/129; Cabinet Order Art. 51(4)

NEXT STEP

Start from the ticket in your hand

Once you have the conduct category, the amount, the points and the deadline all follow.