A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence control circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence control circuitry executes two pulse sequences, thereby acquiring two pieces of data, each of the two pulse sequences being a pulse sequence in which the sequence control circuitry acquires data after applying a short inversion time recovery (STIR) pulse while concurrently applying a gradient magnetic field for spatial selection and each of the two pulse sequences being executed in two different timings by the sequence control circuitry. The processing circuitry generates an image by performing a subtraction processing between the two pieces of data acquired by the sequence control circuitry.