To provide a tape guide in which a surface treatment is performed on a travel face (middle part) on which a magnetic tape travels and a guide surface (flange inside surface) for guiding the magnetic tape to enhance abrasion resistance, provide stable tape moving performance, and reduce a start torque.

A tape guide includes an anodic oxidation coating layer 52 formed on a surface of an Al alloy base material 51 constituting the tape guide, a hard lubricant layer 56b filling a plurality of pores of the anodic oxidation coating layer 52, and a hard lubricant layer 56a covering a surface of the anodic oxidation coating layer 52. A surface of the hard lubricant layer 56a forms recess portions 57 in the plurality of pores of the anodic oxidation coating layer.