PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a boundary block between a sidewalk and a roadway, which facilitates maintenance of trees and plants planted in a top surface of the block. SOLUTION: The boundary block 1 between the sidewalk and the roadway has a planting recess 3 which is opened upward in the upper surface 2a of a block body 2. According to the boundary block, a region sandwiched between a draining channel 6 penetrating through the interior of the block body 2 and the planting recess 3 is composed of intercommunicating porosity composition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI