This paper reports on the preparation of porous membranes consisting of plate-like β"-alumina grains and the evaluation for microfiltration properties. Porous β"-alumina-based ceramics were prepared by the solid-state reactive sintering of Na2CO3 and α-Al2O3 at 1100-1300 °C. To study the effect of impurities in the starting powder mixtures, LiF-doped membranes were also prepared. As for the water filtration test, the turbidity before and after the vacuum filtration was measured using sintered porous membranes. To simulate bacteria-contaminated water, a suspension of a commercial boehmite powder (D50 = 0.7 µm) in distilled water was used. The non-doped samples sintered at 1200 °C was composed of β"-alumina (84 wt.%) and β-alumina (16 wt.%) grains, and showed a good microfiltration performance; the turbidities before and after filtration were 894.4 NTU and 1.46 NTU, respectively.