In the rail, 95% or more of a structure in a head surface section, which is a range from surfaces of head corner sections and a head top section of the rail as a starting point to a depth of 20 mm, is a pearlite or bainite structure and the structure contains 20 to 200 MnS-based sulfides formed around an Al-based oxide as a nucleus and having a grain size in a range of 1 μm to 10 μm per square millimeter of an area to be inspected on a horizontal cross section of the rail.