To provide a recovery method of bismuth, capable of efficiently separating bismuth from an acidic solution produced in copper refining and recovering high-purity bismuth.

The recovery method of bismuth includes: subjecting an acidic solution containing bismuth to precipitate a bismuth salt, and reducing a solution of the precipitate to separate and recover bismuth from coexisting metals. The neutralization treatment is performed in two stages at ordinary temperature. In the first neutralization treatment, the pH of the bismuth-containing solution is adjusted to 0.5-1.5 over a period of 60 minutes or more to form a precipitate of coexisting metals to be precipitated in the pH region, and the precipitate is filtered. In the second neutralization treatment, the pH of the resulting filtrate is adjusted to 2-3 to form a precipitate containing bismuth, the bismuth-containing precipitate is recovered and dissolved in hydrochloric acid, and the solution is iron-reduced to recover precipitated metal bismuth.