To provide a puncture needle for an ultrasonic endoscope, where the reflective echo strength of ultrasonic waves is increased and a clearer ultrasonic echo image of the puncture needle tube is acquired without damaging the materials in siding contact with the outer and inner circumferences of the needle tube.
The puncture needle for the ultrasonic endoscope to be inserted into or drawn out of an insertion channel 21 of a treatment instrument of the ultrasonic endoscope includes the needle tube 12 to be punctured into a living tissue. At least around the tip of the needle tube 12 consists of double pipes 12i, 12o mutually fitted and adhered together, and at least the surface of one of these mutually fitted inner and outer pipes 12i, 12o is formed into a coarse surface 16 with fine concavities and convexities.