This study was conducted to investigate the effect of multi-times feeding on rumination as related with eating behaviour using three male Tokara goats kept in individual cages under 12 hr-light (7:00 -19:00)and 12 hr-dark (19:00-7:00 ) periods. The animals were fed lucerne haycubes ad libitum for continuous feeding and for multi-times feeding. In the latter, feed was given every two hours in the light period (six times of feeding) and once at the onset of the dark period (seven times of feeding a day). The behavioural data of rumination and eating behaviour were collected through the observation made every one minute for three days after seven-day preliminary acclimatization. The results obtained were as follows: For the pattern of eating behaviour in the light period, there was no particular tendency when the goats were kept on continuous feeding, but when kept on multi-times feeding there occurred a higher proportion of eating induced by each supply of diet. On the other hand, there was a similar tendency for both feeding systems in the dark period, but the proportion of eating for multi-times feeding was higher than for continuous feeding on the first one hour in darkness. The rumination showed a decrease during the four hours after the onset of light period on continuous feeding, but for multi-times feeding there was an increase in the proportion every two hours when the proportion of eating behaviour was decreased. In the dark period, there occurred an increase in the proportion of rumination for both feeding systems as time went by, except for a large decrease on the last one hour for continuous feeding. The rumination time was longer in the dark period than in the light period for both feeding systems, but the ratio was larger and rumination time a day was longer when conducting multi-times feeding. This was contrary to the eating time which was longer for continuous feeding. The mean duration of rumination was longer when the animals were kept on multi-times feeding than when kept on continuous feeding, and there was more frequencies of longer duration of rumination for multi-times feeding. The feed intake was slightly less on multi-times feeding than on continuous feeding, resulting in longer time of rumination per unit of intake affected by the multi-times feeding. It was suggested that multi-times feeding influenced diurnal rhythm in rumination and increased ruminatmg time.