PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonwoven fabric for artificial leather that has good touch feeling, high abrasion resistance, and flame retardancy, and to provide an artificial leather using the nonwoven fabric.SOLUTION: A nonwoven fabric for artificial leather has a multilayer structure of at least 2 layers comprising a surface fiber layer and a scrim layer that is a fiber structure and satisfies the following conditions (1) to (5). (1) The surface fiber layer is composed of at least one main fibers and a thermoplastic resin having a melting point that is than that of the main fiber by 20°C or more lower. (2) At least a part of the thermoplastic resin are exposed in a massive shape at the surface of the surface fiber layer. (3) At least a part of the thermoplastic resin adheres between the main fibers. (4) When the thermoplastic resin is observed from the surface side, an average value of a projected area of the massive resin is 1.3×10mor less. and (5) A boundary region between the surface fiber layer a
