The scaffold is a dreamed biomaterial of tissue engineers which can culture cells three-dimensionally outgrowing the two-dimensional cell culture in a petri dish to repair or regenerate tissues and organs. To maximize the performance of this dreamed material, complex three-dimensional (3D) structures should be generated with a simple technique and nontoxic ingredients. Many tissues have tubular or fibrous bundle architectures such as nerve, muscle, tendon, ligament, blood vessel, bone and teeth. The concept of mimicking the extracellualr matrix in real tissue has recently been applied to scaffold development. In this study, a novel method for preparing the poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) scaffold with a tubular architecture is presented. Solid-liquid phase-separation was applied to form tubular pores in the scaffold using the directional freezing apparatus. Pores formed in this manner exhibited a fishbone like morphology due to the two crystalline phases of 1,4-dioxane. A tubular diameter of ca. 60-250 μm was achieved by regulating the PLLA concentration and the cooling rate. The compressive modulus of the fishbone-like porous scaffold showed higher values than that of non-directional porous scaffold. Scaffolds are biomaterials designed by tissue engineers to support three-dimensional tissue formation to facilitate repair and regeneration of damaged tissues and organs. In these scaffolds, biodegradable polymer scaffolds are particularly prevalent because over time the artificial scaffold and be completely replaced by the patient's own cellular material. Currently, the design and fabrication of synthetic biodegradable scaffolds is driven by two materials categories: (1) biodegradable and bioresorbable polymers, which have been effectively used for clinically established products, including polyglic acid (PGA) 1 , poly (l-lactic acid) (PLLA) 2 , poly (d,l-lactic acid) (PDLLA) 3 , and polycaprolactone (PCL) 4 ; (2) novel di-and tri-block copolymers which predominantly incorporated PGA, PLA, and PCL in different chain arrangements which confer both degradation and mechanical property customization 5. Various techniques such as salt leaching 6 , fibrous fabric processing 7 , woven fabric processing 8 , gas forming 9 , emulsion freeze-drying 10 , electro spinning 11 , three dimensional printing 12 , and phase separation 13 have been developed to fabricate porous biodegradable polymer scaffolds. In addition, various techniques for the fabrication of biodegradable polymeric scaffolds have been tried recently to increase the strength and the antibacterial activity of scaffolds 14-16. The concept of mimicking the extracellualr matrix (ECM) in real tissue has been applied to develop scaffolds at macro-and nano-levels. In this study, the microtubular PLLA scaffolds were fabricated to mimic the macrolevel morphology of the ECM because many organs and tissues have tubular or fibrous bundle architectures such as nerve, muscle, tendon, ligament, blood vessel, bone and teeth. Solid-liquid phase separation was used to fabricate tubular...