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AokippuJapanese traffic fines, points and payment deadlines

Violation type

Speeding

The amount ladder and the points ladder for excess speed — two tables, two sets of boundaries.

Read alongside

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.

Hansokukin vs bakkin

Above this excess speed, the blue-ticket track does not apply

Road Traffic Act Art. 118(1)(i) excludes driving at or above this excess from the notification system entirely. It is checked BEFORE any amount table is consulted, so this page reads in the same order the law does.

Ordinary road
30 km/h over the limit
Expressway or motor-vehicle-only road
40 km/h over the limit

道路交通法 第百十八条第一項第一号

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.

This schedule does not care where the excess was recorded. why this site cannot tell you where the cameras are.

Amount table

Cabinet Order, Appended Table 6 — hansokukin amounts

  • 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 · 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 · 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 · 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)
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

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（五十以上）等
    Base points (severity)
    19 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（三十（高速四十）以上五十未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    16 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（二十五以上三十（高速四十）未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    15 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（二十五未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    14 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    大型自動車等無資格運転、仮免許運転違反又は速度超過（五十以上）
    Base points (severity)
    12 points · Heavy

  • 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 · Moderate

  • 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 · Moderate

  • Conduct

    警察官現場指示違反、警察官通行禁止制限違反、
    Show the remaining conduct

    信号無視、通行禁止違反、歩行者用道路徐行違反、通行区分違反、歩行者等側方安全通過義務違反、速度超過（二十以上二十五未満）、急ブレーキ禁止違反、法定横断等禁止違反、高速自動車国道等車間距離不保持、追越し違反、路面電車後方不停止、踏切不停止等、遮断踏切立入り、優先道路通行車妨害等、交差点安全進行義務違反、環状交差点通行車妨害等、環状交差点安全進行義務違反、横断歩行者等妨害等、徐行場所違反、指定場所一時不停止等、駐停車違反（駐停車禁止場所等）、放置駐車違反（駐車禁止場所等）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等五割未満）、積載物重量制限超過（普通等五割以上十割未満）、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、幼児等通行妨害、安全地帯徐行違反、騒音運転等、消音器不備、大型自動二輪車等乗車方法違反、自動運行装置使用条件違反、高速自動車国道等措置命令違反、本線車道横断等禁止違反、高速自動車国道等運転者遵守事項違反、免許条件違反、番号標表示義務違反又は保管場所法違反（長時間駐車）

    Base points (severity)
    2 points · Light

  • Conduct

    混雑緩和措置命令違反、通行許可条件違反、
    Show the remaining conduct

    通行帯違反、路線バス等優先通行帯違反、軌道敷内違反、速度超過（二十未満）、道路外出右左折方法違反、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、自動車等交差点右左折方法違反、交差点右左折等合図車妨害、指定通行区分違反、環状交差点左折等方法違反、交差点優先車妨害、緊急車妨害等、駐停車違反（駐車禁止場所等）、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、積載物重量制限超過（普通等五割未満）、積載物大きさ制限超過、積載方法制限超過、制限外許可条件違反、牽けん引違反、原付等牽けん引違反、自動車等整備不良（尾灯等）、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、初心運転者等保護義務違反、座席ベルト装着義務違反、幼児用補助装置使用義務違反、乗車用ヘルメット着用義務違反、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、最低速度違反、本線車道通行車妨害、本線車道緊急車妨害、本線車道出入方法違反、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

    Base points (severity)
    1 point · Light
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

The shape of the schedule

Six speed categories, banded by how far over you were

Speeding is not one category in the Cabinet Order's amount table. It occupies six, each one a band of excess speed, and each band priced separately by vehicle class. The bands are the schedule's own, and the table above reproduces them rather than smoothing them into a formula.

Two of those six categories are expressly limited to expressways and motor-vehicle-only roads. That restriction is not editorial: the schedule itself scopes those rows, and the reason is structural rather than arbitrary — the equivalent excess on an ordinary road has already passed the point where the notification system stops applying, so an ordinary-road case can never reach those bands.

This is a case where the table's shape encodes a rule that lives in a different instrument entirely. Read as a bare price list, the road-type restriction looks like an unexplained gap. Read against the criminal-referral threshold, it is the only shape the table could have.

Points

The points ladder breaks in different places

The demerit-points table also bands speeding by excess, but its boundaries are not the amount table's. The two schedules were written for different purposes and neither is derived from the other, so their rungs do not line up.

The practical consequence is that two drivers can pay different amounts and take identical points, or take different points at the same amount. 8 km/h over the limit and 17 km/h over the limit over the limit are priced at ¥9,000 and ¥12,000 respectively — and both score 1 point.

The points ladder also runs further than the money ladder. The amount table stops stating a figure once the case leaves the notification system; the points table carries on past that boundary into its own highest band. "No hansokukin" therefore never implies "no points".

The limit itself

Every band is computed from a limit that is about to change

Each band above is a measure of excess — the difference between your speed and the limit that applied. That makes the limit the input to everything on this page, and on an unsigned general road the limit is a statutory default rather than something on a sign.

That default is being rewritten. From 1 September 2026 it stops being a single figure for every unsigned general road and starts depending on the class of road. Where a posted sign exists it governs, as it always has; where none does, the applicable default may not be what it is today.

Because the excess selects the band, and the band selects both the amount and the points, a change to the default moves every figure on this page for the roads it touches — without a single number in either schedule being amended. That change has its own page.

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)

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