To provide hollow silica particles having a dense silica shell layer.
A method for producing hollow silica particles, which comprises:
adjusting the pH of an oil-in-water emulsion containing an aqueous phase, an oil phase and a surfactant to at most 3.0 and adding a first silica material to the oil-in-water emulsion,
adding a second silica material to the emulsion having the first silica material added, at its pH of at least 8, in the presence of alkali metal ions, to obtain a hollow silica precursor dispersion, and
obtaining a hollow silica precursor from the hollow silica precursor dispersion and obtaining hollow silica particles from the hollow silica precursor.