Violation type
Phone use while driving
Holding a phone and creating a traffic danger with one are separate categories, priced differently.
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.
Amount table
Cabinet Order, Appended Table 6 — hansokukin amounts
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)
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| Conduct | Vehicle class | Amount | Track |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Blue ticket (hansokukin) |
| 普通車 | ¥18,000 | Blue ticket (hansokukin) | |
| 二輪車 | ¥15,000 | Blue ticket (hansokukin) | |
| 原付等 | ¥12,000 | 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
Base points
道路交通法施行令 別表第二 一
This site uses both, and never presents the popular word as if it were statutory.
Conduct
速度超過（三十（高速四十）以上五十未満）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等十割以上）、Show the remaining conduct
携帯電話使用等（交通の危険）、無車検運行又は無保険運行
- Base points (severity)
- 6 points · Highest
Conduct
速度超過（二十五以上三十（高速四十）未満）、放置駐車違反（駐停車禁止場所等）、Show the remaining conduct
積載物重量制限超過（大型等五割以上十割未満）、積載物重量制限超過（普通等十割以上）、携帯電話使用等（保持）又は保管場所法違反（道路使用）
- Base points (severity)
- 3 points · Heavy
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| Conduct | Base points (severity) |
|---|---|
| 速度超過（三十（高速四十）以上五十未満）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等十割以上）、携帯電話使用等（交通の危険）、無車検運行又は無保険運行 | 6 points · Highest |
| 速度超過（二十五以上三十（高速四十）未満）、放置駐車違反（駐停車禁止場所等）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等五割以上十割未満）、積載物重量制限超過（普通等十割以上）、携帯電話使用等（保持）又は保管場所法違反（道路使用） | 3 points · Heavy |
- In force
- 道路交通法施行令, consolidation in force 2026-05-21 — 別表第二 (点数)
- Source
- 道路交通法施行令 別表第二 一
- status
- transcribed, not signed off
One phone, two offences
Holding and endangering are separate categories
Phone use while driving is not a single violation. The schedules split it in two: merely holding or operating the device, and doing so in a way that creates a danger to traffic. They are distinct categories with distinct amounts and distinct points.
The split is by consequence, not by device or duration. The same action can fall on either side depending on what it produced in the traffic around it, which is why a driver cannot read the answer off the fact that a phone was in their hand.
The notice records which category was cited. This site sets out what each category is; it does not decide which one applies to a particular stop.
Why it is priced this way
The endangering category is the more serious of the two
The two categories are not variants of one offence at slightly different prices. The endangering category sits higher on both schedules — the amount and the points — because it describes a different thing having happened.
The table above shows both with the statute's own category wording, so the distinction is visible in the language rather than only in the figures.
Searching for this
The word people search for is not always the right register
Phone use is one of the most-searched violations in this market, and it is very often searched using the criminal-law word for a fine rather than the administrative one that usually applies.
If you arrived here looking for a "fine" for phone use, the amount above is the hansokukin — the administrative notice sum — not a bakkin. The difference is not pedantic: they are set by different instruments, paid on different terms, and only one of them is a criminal penalty. There is a page on this site about exactly that distinction.
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.