Explained
Who can pay a blue ticket
Four grounds that remove the blue-ticket track no matter how small the excess was.
Who can pay a blue ticket
Four grounds that remove the blue-ticket track, whatever your speed
Road Traffic Act Art. 125(2) excludes a person from "hansokusha" status — and therefore from the blue-ticket track — on any of four grounds. They have nothing to do with how far over the limit you were.
Unlicensed, or licence suspended
Not licensed for the vehicle driven, or the licence's effect is currently suspended.
Intoxicated
Drunk, or over the Cabinet-Order alcohol threshold for a non-bicycle light vehicle. This site does not classify a reading.
Caused a traffic accident
The violation caused a traffic accident.
Under 16
Under sixteen years of age.
道路交通法 第百二十五条第二項
These four run in parallel with the speed ladder. A driver deep inside the cheapest band who meets one of them is referred anyway, for a reason the speed table never shows.
This page states the statutory condition. It does not return a verdict about your case, which is why there is no "am I eligible?" button on it.
Two independent gates
How far over you were is only one of the two questions
Whether a speeding case stays on the blue-ticket route depends on two conditions that have nothing to do with each other, and both must hold.
The first is the excess itself: past a certain margin over the limit, the Road Traffic Act removes the conduct from the notification system regardless of anything about the driver. That is the threshold the speed calculator checks.
The second is about the driver rather than the driving. Four grounds remove a person from the status the notification route depends on, and they apply however small the excess was. A driver deep inside the cheapest band who meets any one of them is referred anyway — for a reason the speed table never shows.
The provisions sit apart in the Act and contain no cross-reference to each other. This site keeps them apart too, which is why there is no single control anywhere on this site that claims to answer "am I eligible".
The four grounds
What each ground actually says
Being unlicensed or suspended covers not holding a licence for the vehicle being driven, and holding one whose effect is currently suspended. It is about the permission, not about whether the document was in the car.
Intoxication covers being under the influence, or over the alcohol threshold the Cabinet Order sets for the relevant vehicle. Notably, the provision is drafted so that bicycles are expressly within its scope for this ground.
Causing a traffic accident is a ground in itself. The consequence follows from the violation having caused an accident, not from any assessment of how serious the accident was.
Being under sixteen is the fourth. It is an age condition and nothing more.
What this site will not do
This page states the condition; it does not judge your case
There is no eligibility checker on this site, and that is deliberate. Three of the four grounds turn on facts about a situation that a web form cannot establish, and the fourth would give a false sense of completeness if it were the only one a tool asked about.
The intoxication ground in particular is treated here as a fact, not as something to be computed. This site does not classify a breath or blood reading against a threshold, because it has no verified threshold table to classify it against. Producing a verdict from an unsourced threshold would be worse than producing nothing.
So what this page gives is the statutory condition, stated plainly enough to compare against what you know about your own situation. The determination itself belongs to the authority handling the case.
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.