This study aimed to investigate the similarities in dietary habits of 196 middleand higher-aged married couples, who were engaged in farming, in Kyushu area, focusing on the couple's similarity in intake of food groups and that in the overall dietary pattern. The results are summarized as follows: 1) The correlation analysis for the couple's intake of food groups proved that high correlation coefficients were found in processed foods, green vegetables, other vegetables, tuberous crops, miso, meats and fishes, whereas low coefficients were in bread/noodles, eggs, fruits, sugars/confectioneries, milk, dairy products and rice. 2) The analysis of deviation pattern similarity demonstrated high similarities of the couples in the overall dietary pattern. 3) When the subject couples were classified by the deviation pattern analysis into three groups, the husbands of the "highly similar" group tended to consume a smaller number of foods and to take small amounts of energy and nutrients while those of the "slightly similar" group tended to consume a larger number of foods .