A fundus photographing apparatus for photographing a fundus of an examinees eye includes: a photographing part including a photographing optical system for photographing the fundus a mechanism for moving the photographing part a presenting part for presenting a fixation target to the eye an alignment detecting optical system including a light receiving element to detect an alignment state of the photographing part and a setting part for setting an alignment completion position in a back and forth direction of the photographing part relative to the eye based on the detected alignment state. The alignment completion position includes a first alignment completion position information to be set when an optical axis of the photographing part is in a predetermined range relative to a corneal vertex of the eye and a second alignment completion position information to be set when the optical axis is apart from the predetermined range.
