Road marking - Side strip/ No Parking and Stopping/ Driving lane [ Japan driving ]

This is 3rd times for the road markings ( painting).

You can see everywhere on the Japanese roads. So, I hope you drive carefully in Japan. This time, I will explain the 3 markings( lines )

• Side strip

• No Parking and Stopping

• Driving lane

[ Side strip ] Mandatory, Better, Good

You should drive a vehicular lane. Side strip is for cyclist and pedestrians.

Japan roads are not separated between Vehicles and pedestrians. So, take care another pedestrians and traffics while you driving.

[ Side strip- No Parking/ Stopping ] Mandatory, Better, Good

You should not parking and stopping here for pedestrians and others.

They are 2 types, one is two line painted, another is one line painted and dotted lined. Please take care when you are parking or stopping.

      

[ Driving lane ] Mandatory, Better, Good

As followings, There are 4 types for driving lane. Basically they are same and you should keep one lane. And, should not frequently change the lanes.

Important point is the rightest lane is for overtaking ( in the 2 lanes or more cases ) 

You can see many Japanese drivers who continually drive the overtaking lanes. This is a violation of traffic laws. Thought I think the similar rules to another countries, I would like you to keep in your mind. 

     

         

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Road marking - Speed limit/ No Parking/ No Stopping/ No entry [ Japan driving ]

This is 2nd times for the road markings ( painting).

You can see everywhere on the Japanese roads. So, I hope you drive carefully in Japan. This time, I will explain the 5 markings

• Max speed

• No stopping and parking

• No Parking

• No entry zone 

• No stopping zone

[ Speed limit ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

This is mandatory sign. You should keep this Max speed 30 km/h.
 *Important is not mileage per hour. "Kilometer" per hour.
 * Japanese cars displayed Kilometer

This ahead sign is same meaning the following sing as previous ones.
You can see both signs at the same time.

[ No parking and stopping ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

This yellow line is mandatory sign. You should not to park and stop there.


This above sign is same meaning the following sing as previous ones.
You can see both signs at the same time. 

[ No parking ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

This yellow dotted line is mandatory sign. It means no Parking. This is similar to above one and make confuse you a little. You only remember the yellow line of the side walk is " No stopping and No parking"



This above sign is same meaning the following sing as previous ones.
You can see both signs at the same time.

[ No entry and stopping ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

These signs are same meaning. You should not entry and stop in side. The difference of them is yellow line. Yellow means more strict. Please remember them.

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Road marking - No U turn/ No overtake / No lane change [ Japan driving ]

Japan roads have many kinds of marking ( painting).
So, you should take care not only the signs but also the markings on the road surface. From this time, I explain the markings. I would like you to keep in your mind.

[ No U turn ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

This is mandatory sign. You can see everywhere in Japan and should not U turn.  8-20 means to prohibit to U turn from 8:00 to 20:00.

They are same meaning as I informed the previous sign.

[ No Overtake / No lane change ]  Mandatory, Better, Good

There Types of followings are same meaning. You should keep your lane and not overtake whenever you keep in your lane (without crossing yellow line).  And you should not change the another lane by crossing the yellow line.  

You may be able to see the following sign as I informed the previous sign when you see the yellow line. They are same meaning.

The 2 types of followings are same marking before.  " No lane change" when you are in yellow line side.

Other hand, when you are in white line side, you can change lane. 

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I will explain about Parking/ Max Speed/ No entry zone marking. 

If you have some times, I would like you to see previous pages road signs 

 

I would like you to be helpful for your Japan driving in Japan.

If you have any questions, please let me know them by sending a direct mail or fill comments.