Tourist guide book is a text that shows us the popular images of townscape. This study tryes to find a rule of the composition of sightseeing photographs analyzing 462 photos selecting from 4 tourist guide books. Results are as follows : The view and distance between elements scribed in sightseeing photos are decided from the shape of main subjects, which are classified a dot type, a liner type and a surface type. Furthermore, the structure of them is affected by the composition of main subject and sub elements, which can be classified 5 groups through Hayasi' s qualification theory type III.
