An ink jet recording material having excellent gloss and capable of recording thereon clear ink images having a high color density includes a multi-layered ink fixing layer, formed on a substrate material and composed of an outermost ink fixing layer, and one or more intermediate ink fixing layers superposed on each other, and each includes a binder and a pigment selected from silica, aluminosilicate, alumina and zeolite, the pigment in each ink fixing layer being in the form of fine secondary particles having an average secondary particles size of 1 &mgr;m or less and each secondary particle is composed of a plurality of primary particles agglomerated with each other, and the outermost ink fixing layer being one formed by a cast-coating procedure using a specular casting surface.