When a specified small motorized bicycle in footway-permitted mode rides on a sidewalk, it must keep to the half of the sidewalk nearer the buildings, away from the roadway.

特例特定小型原動機付自転車（歩道を通行できる旨の表示をした電動キックボードなど）が歩道を通行するときは、歩道の中央から建物寄りの部分を通らなければならない。

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Article 17-2(2) requires the rider to keep to the half of the sidewalk nearer the roadway (measured from the centre line of the sidewalk), not the building side. Where part of the sidewalk is marked as a designated bicycle section, the rider must use that section instead. In either case the rider must proceed at "jokou" speed - slow enough to stop immediately.

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２前項の場合において、特例特定小型原動機付自転車は、当該歩道の中央から車道寄りの部分（普通自転車通行指定部分があるときは、当該普通自転車通行指定部分）を徐行しなければならず、また、特例特定小型原動機付自転車の進行が歩行者の通行を妨げることとなるときは、一時停止しなければならない。

Source: Road Traffic Act — 道路交通法第十七条の二（特例特定小型原動機付自転車の歩道通行） · Act No.105 of 1960

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When a specified small motorized bicycle in footway-permitted mode rides on a sidewalk, it must keep to the half of the sidewalk nearer the buildings, away from the roadway.

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