Three male and six female specimens of Chaetopsylla mikado Rothschild, 1904 (Siphonaptera: Vermipsyllidae) were collected from a raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides in Saijō-chō, Higashi-Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Honshū, Japan, on 26 January 2014. This collection represents the first record of C. mikado from Higashi-Hiroshima city and the second report from Hiroshima Prefecture.