The development of endoscopic medicine started with the development and devise of the instruments themselves. The new aspects of the diagnostics, resarch field, and thera-peutic measures followed it. This paper discussed mainly about the instruments based on the established technology as well as the near future when it is utilized. The development of the instruments has come out from the one of the surrounding-area technology in advance. But it is not until the fundamental technology has been developed commercialy as well as financially that the new technology is able to be adapted for endoscopes. Endoscopes have been developed, which started with a rigid gastroscope and followed after a gastrocamera, a fiberendoscope, and reached a videoendoscope recently. Videoendo-scopes are overwhelming fiberscopes gradually though they are coexisted so far. From the above, the near future of endoscopic medicine must be related with the one of videoendo-scopes. What were discussed in this paper were the followings ; the possibility of the development of the videoendoscope itself, the resolution of pictorial images, the application of liquid crystal, the pictorial management, the analysis of the pictorial images, the posibility of autodiagnosis, the application of infrared videoendoscope to diagnostics, the correction of color break-up in moving pictures, the development of a stereoscopic videoen-doscope and a cholangiopancreatoscope, the application of a gamma ray to an endoscope, an MRI endoscope. A capsule endoscope might take place of a videoendoscope and other micromachines might be utilized. The further development of three dimensinal display by an endoscopic ultrasonographic tomography, pictorial filing system and the development of endoscopic surgery were mentioned. Endoscopic examinations were expected to be more spread with the development and management of the facilities.