Same in Austria: bikes/ebikes/scooters and scateboards have a alcohol limit of 0.8 permille. Drone piloting I believe has 0.0.

In Germany you can even lose your driver's license when riding a bike drunk (but you have to be very drunk.. more than 1.6 per mille).

What if you do not have a drivers license? You just get a fine?

A repeat offender would eventually be barred from any participation in traffic other than walking. Basically a form of restraining order, with the same limited effectivity.

Fortunately the law is still acknowledging that drunk cycling is much less bad than drunk driving (and often the only practical alternative besides sobriety), so you'd have to go pretty wild to ever get more than maybe a fine. Unfortunately, this view is increasingly under pressure from the kind of "enemy of the good" perfectionists who always ignore the big picture.

Same in the US

Depends on the state. In Washington(state) riding a bike while drunk is legal. The police can stop you an offer you a ride to your destination. If the drunk cyclist declines the offer, they're free to go unless the officer believes they are a hazard to the public, in which case the bicycle can be impounded if necessary. But the cyclist won't get a DUI for it.

That seems quite reasonable.

Bicycles generally share footpaths with pedestrians, so drunk riding can be dangerous to other people. Bicycle laws are rarely enforced in any case

Never heard that one...

It's not,that all bikes are disallowed, it's that riding a bicycle while drunk is against the law. And they have pretty stiff fines, comparable to drunk driving tickets: https://jpninfo.com/76265

Mind giving a source? Me and thousands of other university students in here would like to disagree.

It's against the law in many places in the US as well, but I've never heard of it enforced. I'm sure most people would rather have drunks on bikes than cars.

I suspect the main reason is to ensure the driver of a car is not liable if they hit a drunk cyclist.

It’s illegal but rarely enforced. If you hit a person while biking drunk you will likely be in a world of shit.

Unlikely unless you accidently kill /injure some one and then only if the family has a lot of $ for a private prosecution.

The original post stated cycling was illegal in japan.