Hello all,
Since my Wife worked until late night i decided to pick her up from station with my bicycle, while returning home together while she sitting on back of my bicycle, police officers stopped us and check my bicycle’s number and after confirmed it belongs to me they told us to not ride together and leave. My wife told me there is nothing to worry about, but i wanted to ask from here too just in case. Since they able to see my information on their (tablet?) device after entered my bicycle’s number is there any possibility that i have get ticket or something like that?
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Edit: Some of you might find my question silly, but since it was my first encounter with police officers in Japan, bit worried.
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No, don’t worry about it, you’re totally fine.
In my experience, unless they gave you an actual ticket (blue paper?) and an actual bill to be paid at the post office, etc., then no, it was just a warning.
The police let you off this time, but you can get fined for doing that. 50,000JPY I think.
Thank you all. It was a good lesson for me, I don’t want to get into same situation again so no more bicycle taxi 
Just wanted to say this sounds romantic as hell. Straight out of a slice of life anime. Yeah, downvote me, you know it’s true.
That’s illegal. You can’t ride a bicycle with someone sitting at the back. You also can’t ride holding an umbrella in one hand, with earphones in or riding parallel with another person. You’re lucky you didn’t get fined.
If nothing happened then and there, nothing will.
Next time leave a little early and walk your bicycle and hers to the station.
Listen to your wife lol
Did they say anything about helmets? (or were you both wearing them)
police were being kind of letting you go once. Try to do this and get caught again by the same officers, you will get what you expect
It’s actually illegal in Japan. Is your wife Japanese?
https://www.adire.jp/lega-life-lab/bicycle-nicket297/
They did two things:
1. Make sure the bicycle isn’t stolen
2. Gave you a warning for futarinori
If they wanted to do anything more, they would have done it. Where they are usually actually giving out fines is for things like purposely running red lights or especially flying across railroad tracks without stopping.