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Daihachi car in Ginza!
In the middle of Ginza, there is a traffic sign that is a little worrisome with a Daihachi car drawn in the prohibition mark. The official name of this sign is "light vehicles other than bicycles" and is a light vehicle. ※By law, it means a vehicle without an engine. In other words, bicycles can pass beyond this sign, but carts (daihachi cars, hand-operated trolleys, rear cars, stalls, etc.), rickshaws, sleds, cattle and horses cannot pass.
※Light vehicles are defined as follows in Article 2, Paragraph 1, Item 11 of the Road Traffic Act.
"A car (including sleds and cattle and horses) driven by bicycles, carts and other people or animals, or driven by other vehicles, and driven without relying on rails, wheelchairs for the physically handicapped, Walking aid vehicles, etc. And other than children's cars. ”
There are seven places where Daihachi car signs are installed (the red circle point in the map above), and the regulation time zone is common from 18:00 in the evening to 3:00 the following day. After confirming at the Tsukiji Police Station, it seems that the main purpose was to regulate food stalls such as ramen do not enter. This sign can be said to be a "proof" of being the center of the so-called "Ginza at night".