To provide a recording medium which is highly absorptive to ink and ensures ink fixing properties and further, a highly sharp image as well as method for manufacturing the recording medium.

In the recording medium having an ink receiving layer, the ink receiving layer is characterized by being composed mainly of a light transmissible resin and is of a porous structure. Further, in the method for manufacturing the recording medium having the ink receiving layer, a coating liquid containing the light transmissible resin as a main component is applied to a base material to form a coating layer after the stirring of the coating liquid to generate minute bubbles or the coating liquid containing the light transmissible resin as a main component of the ink receiving layer and a specific solvent which forms holes in the ink receiving layer by vaporization, is applied to the base material to form the coating layer following the stirring of the coating liquid in such a way that the minute particles of the specific solvent are dispersed. In addition, the coated layer is dried to make the ink receiving layer structurally porous.