To provide coated paper which contains a coating composition comprising a pigment and an aqueous binder and has excellent printing suitability such as an ink setting property and excellent optical characteristics such as print gloss.

This coated paper prepared by sequentially laminating a coating composition A containing a pigment and an aqueous binder and a coating composition B containing a pigment and an aqueous binder to base paper is characterized in that the air permeability of coated paper X prepared by laminating the coating composition A to the base paper is smaller than the air permeability of coated paper Y prepared by laminating the coating composition B to the base paper. The air permeability is a value measured using the coated paper X and the coated paper Y obtained by laminating the coating composition A and the coating composition B in a coating amount (solid content) of 15 g/m2 only one side on a wood-free paper NPI (produced by Nippon Seishi Co.) as the base paper, respectively.