The purpose of this study was to invastigate the characteristics of eating habit of the student in special school, such as eating behavior, food preference and actual condition of food intake by using the question method. The subjects for this study included 313 students with hearing handica- pped, visually handicapped, physical handicapped. The result of this study is as follows; First, in behavior of general eating behavior attitude, students showed a tendency to eat lunch very deliciously and breakfast indifferently. The only 73.87% of students had a regular meal. The 77.81% of students took three meals a day. In behavior of eating breakfast, the rate of skipping meal was low and the main reason for skipping meal was the lack of appetite. The breakfast was rice-oriented meal consisted of rice, soup. They took betweenmeal snack such a noodles, noodles preferably 1 time a day. Second, in preference of food, students mainly hose food by its taste and also they liked something that their parent liked, too. The preference of food is as following: milk, ice cream, bean curd, anchovy, Coke. In contrast, they didn't have a favor to tara, butter, cheese, sea lettuce. Third, in actual condition on food intake, the rate of intaking meat and its processed food 1～2 times for a week was 57.89% and then that of fish and shell was 50.88%, seaweeds was 62.18%, green & yellow vegetables was 39.80%, potato & sweet potato was 55.85%, eag was 59.73%, fried food was 49.50%. In addition th rate of drinking milk was 1 glass a day on the average.