To provide a method for manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet of high Si excellent in surface quality with less red scale flaw.

In advance of hot rolling of a stock slab of a steel sheet containing ≥0.1% Si, a surface temperature T (°C) at the time the rolled stock is taken out of a heating furnace and a time t (s) up to the first descaling by high pressure water after the taking-out are to satisfy a relation: 1170 ≤T-3.01 t, and the energy force of the high pressure water on the sheet surface is to be ≥120 kJ/m2.