A cigarette inspection device comprising imaging means for imaging a filter-side end face of a cigarette bundle containing a predetermined number of filter cigarettes horizontally arranged when wrapping process of the cigarette bundle is unfinished, the imaging means including a strobe for illuminating the filter-side end face of the cigarette bundle when the filter-side end face is imaged, quality inspection means for analyzing an inspection image in which the filter-side end face is imaged, and inspecting quality of filter end faces of the cigarettes, the device comprising: cigarette-location detecting means, the cigarette-location detecting means including: a determining section for determining a pattern image (A1-A7) to be used for detecting a cigarette location on the basis of a preset location of each cigarette in the cigarette bundle, a setting section for setting a search area with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image for detecting the cigarette location by the use of the pattern image (A1-A7), a shift processing section for moving the pattern image obtained on the basis of cigarette location in the cigarette bundle within the search area that is determined with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image, and a matching processing section for obtaining an image position at which the pattern image coincides with an image of the filter end face of the cigarette, and the quality inspection means includes a procedure for cutting out an image of the filter end face of the cigarette from the inspection image according to the detected image position of the cigarette, and inspecting the quality of the filter end face of the cigarette, the quality inspection means being adapted to repeat the procedure by a number of the cigarettes contained in the cigarette bundle. cigarette-location detecting means, the cigarette-location detecting means including: a determining section for determining a pattern image (A1-A7) to be used for detecting a cigarette location on the basis of a preset location of each cigarette in the cigarette bundle, a setting section for setting a search area with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image for detecting the cigarette location by the use of the pattern image (A1-A7), a shift processing section for moving the pattern image obtained on the basis of cigarette location in the cigarette bundle within the search area that is determined with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image, and a matching processing section for obtaining an image position at which the pattern image coincides with an image of the filter end face of the cigarette, and a determining section for determining a pattern image (A1-A7) to be used for detecting a cigarette location on the basis of a preset location of each cigarette in the cigarette bundle, a setting section for setting a search area with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image for detecting the cigarette location by the use of the pattern image (A1-A7), a shift processing section for moving the pattern image obtained on the basis of cigarette location in the cigarette bundle within the search area that is determined with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image, and a matching processing section for obtaining an image position at which the pattern image coincides with an image of the filter end face of the cigarette, and the quality inspection means includes a procedure for cutting out an image of the filter end face of the cigarette from the inspection image according to the detected image position of the cigarette, and inspecting the quality of the filter end face of the cigarette, the quality inspection means being adapted to repeat the procedure by a number of the cigarettes contained in the cigarette bundle.