Seaweed-house buildings are mainly distributed over east sea coast in Shandong province of China. Previous researches indicate that a seaweed-house had been the most favorable house of people who lived in Rongcheng city since the New Stone Age. However, the traditional landscape of seaweed-house villages has been changing a lot these years. Seaweed-house villages have attracted more and more attention as traditional village of Shandong province in China. This study tried to make clear the landscape character of seaweed house villages’ location and configuration. Moreover, it was discussed that what kind of factors affects the landscape character. 52 villages in Ningjin district RongchengCity, Shandong province of China are selected as object sites of the study. The relation between villages and the sea or rivers was investigated for understanding the landscape character of seaweed house villages’ location. The shape of the houses was surveyed to try to have a grasp of the villages’ figure. The results of the study show that 35 villages locate in the inland and 45 of those are distributed along the rivers. 70 percent of the seaweed house villages are located on the slope declining from north to south. Moreover, it is made clear that the orientation of houses is regular and dense houses compose square villages.