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Chinese intellectuals' visit to Japan prior to the Sino-Japanese War outnumbered that made to Europe because of geographic advantage and historical familiarity. Their status spanned diversely from delegates despatched by the Qing Dynasty for diplomatic purposes, researchers despatched by the Chinese local governments for the modernization to intellectuals who travelled at their own expenses. They left a large number of notes of travel to Japan. While individual research on notes of travel to Japan is not small in its number, few research has been made on the subject of 'Maritime Nation Japan'. This study examined the images of Maritime Nation Japan focused on Sino-Japanese travel routes and Chinese living in Japan's open parts, out of Chinese travel notes to Japan in the Qing Dynasty's latter years.