Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in coating adhesion and magnetic properties is provided. The method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in coating adhesion and magnetic properties includes a process of heating to 1280°C or more and hot rolling a slab containing, by mass%, Bi and a predetermined composition of constituents and having a balance of Fe and impurities so as to obtain hot rolled steel sheet, a process, after hot rolling annealing the hot rolled steel sheet, of cold rolling it one time or cold rolling it two times or more with process annealing performed interposed so as to obtain cold rolled steel sheet, a process of rapidly heating then decarburization annealing the steel sheet, a process of coating the surface of the cold rolled steel sheet after decarburization annealing with an annealing separator containing predetermined compounds including sulfates or sulfides and having MgO as its main constituent, then performing finish annealing, a process of performing strictly controlled finish annealing, and a process of coating an insulating coating, then performing flattening annealing.