An image forming apparatus having: an image bearing member, which bears an electrostatic image thereon; a developing device, which develops the electrostatic image with toner to form a toner image, and an intermediate transfer member, which is in contact with the image bearing member and to which the toner image formed on the image bearing member is transferred, wherein the surface microhardness of the intermediate transfer member is smaller than the surface microhardness of the toner, and the adhesive force index of Kawakita method of the toner is 110 or greater.