A high pressure hose comprising an inner surface layer and an outer surface layer coaxially layered on each other and three or four reinforcing layers (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) coaxially layered on one another between the inner surface layer and the outer surface layer, the inner surface layer comprising a thermoplastic resin having a gas permeation coefficient of less than or equal to 1 × 10 -8 cc·cm/cm 2 ·sec.·cmHg for a dry hydrogen gas at 90 °C, the gas permeation coefficient being a value measured in accordance with JIS K7126, and fluid flowing through the hose is a hydrogen gas, a braid angle (A1, A2, A3, A4) of each of the reinforcing layers is set to range from greater than or equal to 50.5° to 57°, the reinforcing layers having an average braid angle of greater than or equal to 53.5° and less than or equal to 55.5°, the average braid angle being obtained by averaging braid angles of the respective reinforcing layers, the braid angles being set to increase toward the reinforcing layer at an outermost circumference, characterized by reinforcing wires constituting the reinforcing layer at an innermost circumference having elongation at break of greater than or equal to 3.0% and less than or equal to 4.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N, reinforcing wires (4b, 4c) constituting the reinforcing layers other than the reinforcing layer at the innermost circumference and a fourth reinforcing layer having elongation at break of greater than or equal to 2.0% and less than 3.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N, and the elongation at break and the breaking strength of the reinforcing wires of each of the reinforcing layers are values obtained by performing tests under test conditions specified in "8.5 tensile strength and elongation ratio" in JIS L 1017:2002, and at a hose internal pressure ranging from zero to a burst pressure, an internal pressure borne by each of the reinforcing layers is within the range of ± 5% of an average borne internal pressure obtained by averaging the internal pressures borne by the respective layer. a braid angle (A1, A2, A3, A4) of each of the reinforcing layers is set to range from greater than or equal to 50.5° to 57°, the reinforcing layers having an average braid angle of greater than or equal to 53.5° and less than or equal to 55.5°, the average braid angle being obtained by averaging braid angles of the respective reinforcing layers, the braid angles being set to increase toward the reinforcing layer at an outermost circumference, characterized by reinforcing wires constituting the reinforcing layer at an innermost circumference having elongation at break of greater than or equal to 3.0% and less than or equal to 4.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N, reinforcing wires (4b, 4c) constituting the reinforcing layers other than the reinforcing layer at the innermost circumference and a fourth reinforcing layer having elongation at break of greater than or equal to 2.0% and less than 3.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N, and the elongation at break and the breaking strength of the reinforcing wires of each of the reinforcing layers are values obtained by performing tests under test conditions specified in "8.5 tensile strength and elongation ratio" in JIS L 1017:2002, and at a hose internal pressure ranging from zero to a burst pressure, an internal pressure borne by each of the reinforcing layers is within the range of ± 5% of an average borne internal pressure obtained by averaging the internal pressures borne by the respective layer.