Explained
Hansokukin and bakkin
Both are money. Beyond that they are entirely different systems.
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.
This is not a "bakkin"
bakkin 罰金hansokukin 反則金 / hōchi-ihankin 放置違反金
罰金 (bakkin) is the criminal-law word. What you pay on a blue ticket is 反則金 (hansokukin); what a vehicle's registered user pays for an abandoned-parking case is 放置違反金 (hōchi-ihankin). Neither is a bakkin. The searched word is the wrong register, and this page names the one that actually applies.
Speeding
One excess speed, three separate ladders
Speeding produces three consequences from one number — how far over you were — but the three tables break at different places. Reading one of them does not tell you the other two.
Hansokukin (the notice amount)
Cabinet Order, Appended Table 6 (Art. 45)
- 1–15 km/h¥9,000
- 15–20 km/h¥12,000
- 20–25 km/h¥15,000
- 25–30 km/h¥18,000
- 30–35 km/h¥25,000
- 35–40 km/h¥35,000
Priced by vehicle class and, for the top bands, by road type. It stops paying entirely at the criminal-referral threshold.
Base demerit points
Cabinet Order, Appended Table 2, part 1
- 1–20 km/h1 point
- 20–25 km/h2 points
- 25–30 km/h3 points
- 25–40 km/h3 points
- 30–50 km/h6 points
- 40–50 km/h6 points
- 50 km/h or more12 points
A different table with different boundaries and its own road-type split — and it does NOT stop at the criminal threshold.
Bakkin (a court fine)
Road Traffic Act, Art. 118(1)(i)
Ceiling
¥100,000
Floor
¥10,000
The floor comes from Penal Code Art. 15, reached through Art. 8 as the general rule. That article also carries a statutory-mitigation proviso under which a court CAN go below it; this site does not model mitigation, so what is stated here is the un-mitigated floor only.
No bands at all. The court sets the amount inside the statutory range.
Same points, different money
8 km/h over the limit and 17 km/h over the limit pay different amounts — ¥9,000 and ¥12,000 — and score the identical 1 point. The money table and the points table are not the same partition.
Past the boundary
Above the threshold the hansokukin table stops having an amount, and points keep accruing. "No hansokukin" does not mean nothing happens.
Ceiling table
Road Traffic Act, Appended Table 2 — hansokukin ceilings
Conduct
第百十八条第一項第一号又は第三項の罪に当たる行為（第二十二条の規定によりこれを超える速度で進行してはならないこととされている最高速度を三十キロメートル毎時（高速自動車国道等においては四十キロメートル毎時）以上超える速度で運転する行為を除く。）- Ceiling · 大型自動車、中型自動車、準中型自動車、大型特殊自動車、トロリーバス及び路面電車（以下「大型自動車等」という。）
- ¥50,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥40,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車、原動機付自転車及び重被牽けん引車以外の軽車両（以下この表において「小型特殊自動車等」という。）
- ¥30,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第一項）。
Conduct
第百十八条第一項第四号の罪に当たる行為- Ceiling · 大型自動車等
- ¥50,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥40,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥30,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第一項第四号）。
Conduct
第百十八条第二項第一号の罪に当たる行為（車両について第五十七条第一項の規定により積載物の重量の制限として定められた数値の二倍以上の重量の積載をして大型自動車等を運転する行為を除く。）- Ceiling · 大型自動車等
- ¥50,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥40,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車及び原動機付自転車
- ¥30,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第二項）。
Conduct
第百十九条第一項第二号から第六号まで、第十四号から第十六号まで、Show the remaining conduct
第十九号若しくは第二十号、第二項第一号から第三号まで又は第三項の罪に当たる行為
- Ceiling · 大型自動車等
- ¥20,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥15,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥10,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)三月以下の拘禁刑又は五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条第一項・第二項）。
Conduct
第百十九条の二の四第一項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為- Ceiling · 大型自動車等及び重被牽けん引車
- ¥35,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥25,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥15,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)十五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条の二の四第一項・第三項）。
Conduct
第百十九条の三第一項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為- Ceiling · 大型自動車等及び重被牽けん引車
- ¥25,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥20,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥12,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条の三第一項・第三項）。
Conduct
第百二十条第一項第二号から第七号まで、第十号（第七十一条第一号、Show the remaining conduct
第四号から第五号まで、第五号の三、第五号の四若しくは第六号又は第七十一条の二に係る部分に限る。）若しくは第十二号から第十四号まで、第二項第一号若しくは第二号又は第三項の罪に当たる行為
- Ceiling · 大型自動車等
- ¥10,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥8,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥6,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百二十条）。
Conduct
第百二十一条第一項第三号、第八号、Show the remaining conduct
第九号、第十一号若しくは第十二号、第二項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為
- Ceiling · 大型自動車等
- ¥8,000
- Ceiling · 普通自動車等
- ¥6,000
- Ceiling · 小型特殊自動車等
- ¥4,000
- Criminal penalty
- Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)二万円以下の罰金又は科料に処する（第百二十一条）。
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| Conduct | Vehicle class | Ceiling | Criminal penalty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第百十八条第一項第一号又は第三項の罪に当たる行為（第二十二条の規定によりこれを超える速度で進行してはならないこととされている最高速度を三十キロメートル毎時（高速自動車国道等においては四十キロメートル毎時）以上超える速度で運転する行為を除く。） | 大型自動車、中型自動車、準中型自動車、大型特殊自動車、トロリーバス及び路面電車（以下「大型自動車等」という。） | ¥50,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第一項）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥40,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車、原動機付自転車及び重被牽けん引車以外の軽車両（以下この表において「小型特殊自動車等」という。） | ¥30,000 | ||
| 第百十八条第一項第四号の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等 | ¥50,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第一項第四号）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥40,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥30,000 | ||
| 第百十八条第二項第一号の罪に当たる行為（車両について第五十七条第一項の規定により積載物の重量の制限として定められた数値の二倍以上の重量の積載をして大型自動車等を運転する行為を除く。） | 大型自動車等 | ¥50,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十八条第二項）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥40,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車及び原動機付自転車 | ¥30,000 | ||
| 第百十九条第一項第二号から第六号まで、第十四号から第十六号まで、第十九号若しくは第二十号、第二項第一号から第三号まで又は第三項の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等 | ¥20,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)三月以下の拘禁刑又は五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条第一項・第二項）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥15,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥10,000 | ||
| 第百十九条の二の四第一項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等及び重被牽けん引車 | ¥35,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)十五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条の二の四第一項・第三項）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥25,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥15,000 | ||
| 第百十九条の三第一項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等及び重被牽けん引車 | ¥25,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)十万円以下の罰金に処する（第百十九条の三第一項・第三項）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥20,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥12,000 | ||
| 第百二十条第一項第二号から第七号まで、第十号（第七十一条第一号、第四号から第五号まで、第五号の三、第五号の四若しくは第六号又は第七十一条の二に係る部分に限る。）若しくは第十二号から第十四号まで、第二項第一号若しくは第二号又は第三項の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等 | ¥10,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)五万円以下の罰金に処する（第百二十条）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥8,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥6,000 | ||
| 第百二十一条第一項第三号、第八号、第九号、第十一号若しくは第十二号、第二項又は第三項の罪に当たる行為 | 大型自動車等 | ¥8,000 | Red ticket (bakkin, criminal)二万円以下の罰金又は科料に処する（第百二十一条）。 |
| 普通自動車等 | ¥6,000 | ||
| 小型特殊自動車等 | ¥4,000 |
An open question
The two tables do not partition vehicles the same way
The ceiling table splits vehicles into 大型自動車等 / 普通自動車等 / 小型特殊自動車等. The amount table splits them into 大型車 / 普通車 / 二輪車 / 原付等. Neither the number of classes nor their names agree.
And neither instrument says the two partitions correspond. This site therefore has no function that reads one partition into the other. The two tables are printed side by side and their rows are never joined, because nothing in the statutory text licenses the join.
The question is recorded in the payload, and the record is reproduced below in its own words. Not having an answer is written down as not having one.
The vehicle wordings the ceiling table uses
7 distinct wordings- 大型自動車、中型自動車、準中型自動車、大型特殊自動車、トロリーバス及び路面電車（以下「大型自動車等」という。）
- 普通自動車等
- 小型特殊自動車、原動機付自転車及び重被牽けん引車以外の軽車両（以下この表において「小型特殊自動車等」という。）
- 大型自動車等
- 小型特殊自動車等
- 小型特殊自動車及び原動機付自転車
- 大型自動車等及び重被牽けん引車
- In force
- 道路交通法, consolidation in force 2026-07-21 — 別表第二 (反則金の限度額)
- Source
- 道路交通法 別表第二（第百二十五条、第百三十条の二関係）
The vehicle wordings the amount table uses
8 distinct wordings- 普通車
- 二輪車
- 原付等
- 大型車
- 大型車又は重被牽けん引車
- 二輪車又は原付等
- 普通車又は二輪車
- 大型車、普通車、二輪車又は原付等
- 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）
These two columns are NOT a correspondence table. The rows beside each other have nothing to do with each other, neither instrument states that the two sets cover the same ground, and this site carries no function that converts one into the other. What is listed is the WORDING each table actually uses, not a count of its classes: neither table words its classes uniformly from row to row, and rows that define a term sit beside rows that use the defined term.
This page does not map the ceiling table's vehicle classes onto the amount table's. Neither instrument states the two partitions as co-extensive, so the question is recorded rather than answered. The payload's own note follows, unedited.
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)
NOT settled here, and a page that resolves it is asserting something neither instrument states. 【道路交通法】別表第二's 3-way vehicle partition (大型自動車等/普通自動車等/小型特殊自動車等, itself non-uniform between conduct categories) and the 反則金 amount table's 4-way partition (大型車/普通車/二輪車/原付等, ALSO non-uniform row to row) are never stated as co-extensive by either instrument. A page that computes "which ceiling applies to my 反則金 amount" by matching vehicle-class LABELS across the two tables is making an inference neither instrument states.
The four channels
There are four consequences, not two
It is natural to think of a traffic violation as producing "a fine". In Japan it can produce any of four distinct consequences, and they differ in who pays, which instrument sets the amount, and whether a licence is affected.
The first is the hansokukin (反則金): the administrative notice sum, paid by the DRIVER under the notification system, with its ceiling in the Act and its amount in the Cabinet Order. Points attach separately.
The second is the bakkin (罰金) or the petty fine: a CRIMINAL penalty, imposed by a court on the driver, with the amount set within a statutory range rather than read from a schedule.
The third is the abandoned-parking charge (放置違反金): billed not to a driver but to the vehicle's REGISTERED USER, where no driver was identified. It carries no points at all.
The fourth is not money. Demerit points attach to a driver's licence from their own table, independently of which of the money channels applies.
The register error
Why the word most people search for is usually the wrong one
The most common way to look up the cost of a Japanese traffic violation is to search for its bakkin — the criminal word. For most everyday violations, and for parking in particular, a bakkin is not what applies.
A parking violation draws a hansokukin, or the abandoned-parking charge. Neither of those is a bakkin, and the difference is not terminological fussiness: a bakkin is a criminal penalty imposed by a court, and it is not what an ordinary parking notice represents.
This site is written to be findable under the word people use and correct about the word that applies, in the same breath. That is the reason for the correction panel that appears on so many of these pages: it is not there to score a point, it is there because using the right register is the difference between understanding your position and misunderstanding it.
How the two are set
One is read from a table; the other is decided
The clearest structural difference is where the amount comes from. A hansokukin is stated: the schedule gives a figure for the conduct and vehicle class, and there is nothing to argue about within the notification route.
A bakkin is not stated. The legislation gives a ceiling, the general criminal law supplies a floor, and a court decides the amount between them. No table exists to read it off, and any source offering a single confident figure for a court fine is describing a typical outcome rather than a rule.
That is why this site can give you a hansokukin from a calculator and cannot give you a bakkin from one. The difference is not in this site's ambition; it is in what the instruments actually contain.
The two tables behind the notice sum
Even the hansokukin takes two instruments to state
The Act sets ceilings by class of violation; the Cabinet Order sets the amount payable within them. The ceiling table identifies its rows by pointing at criminal provisions of the same Act, while the amount table describes its rows in plain conduct terms.
So the administrative sum is defined by reference to the criminal register even when no criminal process follows. The two are not parallel systems that never touch — the notice sum is keyed to the offence the conduct would otherwise be.
The two tables also use different vehicle partitions, and neither instrument states how they correspond. This site shows both and converts between neither.
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.