This study was focused on community response to Shinkansen railway vibration. Social surveys for housewives in detached houses were carried out along the Tokaido Shinkansen Line in Kanagawa Prefecture. Applying path analysis to the response, we have clarified Shinkansen railway vibration annoyance. The results were as follows: 1)Most of inhabitants within 100 meters from the railway were annoyed by the vibration. 2)Annoyance was directly affected by the irritation, auditory plus visual effects due to the vibration and evaluation to the change of the vibration environment and indirectly influenced by vibration exposure. 3)Noise was also one of factors constituting vibration annoyance.