To provide a negative electrode material capable of giving a lithium ion secondary battery that is sufficiently small in the charge/discharge irreversible capacity observed at the initial cycle stage, has excellent high-temperature storage characteristics, and reduced in the gas generation at the initial cycle stage as well as during high-temperature storage.A carbon material for lithium ion secondary battery, wherein the surface functional group amount O/C value represented by the following formula 1 is from 1 to 4% and the sum (Cl/C+S165/C) of the surface functional group amount Cl/C value represented by the following formula 2 and the surface functional group amount S165/C value represented by the following formula 3 is from 0.05 to 0.5%: O/C value (%)=O atom concentration determined based on the peak area of the spectrum of O1s in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis/C atom concentration determined based on the peak area of the spectrum of C1s in XPS analysis×100  Formula 1: Cl/C value (%)=Cl atom concentration determined based on the peak area of the spectrum of Cl2p in XPS analysis/C atom concentration determined based on the peak area of the spectrum of C1s in XPS analysis×100  Formula 2: S165/C value (%)=S165 atom concentration based on the peak area of the peak near 165 eV in the spectrum corresponding to S2p in XPS analysis/C atom concentration determined based on the peak area of the spectrum of C1s in XPS analysis×100  Formula 3.