The purpose of this study is to understand the method of extracting and describing local image from travel essay series "KAIDOU WO YUKU". In Conclusion, as the extracting method, 4 new elements is took into "local element" for local image object. Those elements are available not in travel essay, but in ordinary situation to produce local image. As the describing method, there are 6types method - "sensation", "emotion", "sentiment" ("comparison", "suitableness", "collation", "derivation"). There are mainly 2types context of local image. One is "sensation" and "emotion" about local landscape. Another is "collation" and "derivation" with adopting "history", "inhabitant" and "locality".
