To provide a hydraulic shock absorber for a vehicle improving grounding property in low speed operation, and improving road surface follow-up property in high speed operation.

The hydraulic shock absorber for a vehicle 10 has a slide pipe 12 slidably provided in a cylinder tube 11, and an operation oil chamber 13 inside the cylinder tube 11 and the slide pipe 12. An oil seal 22 is provided on an inner circumference of the cylinder tube 11, to seal a guide bush 21 coated by polytetrafluoro-ethylene and slidably provided on an outer circumference of the slide pipe 12 and the operation oil chamber 13, to form an amorphous hard carbon film 3 on the outer circumferential surface of the slide pipe 12.