Paraganglioma is not a particularly rare type of tumor, but intravagal paraganglioma is very rare. We recently treated a case of intravagal paraganglioma arising in the parapharyngeal space. A 70 year-old male was examined following complaints of infra-auricular swelling. A preoperative carotid angiogram revealed that the tumor had high vascularity and that the carotid bifurcation was not widened. We were able to remove the tumor transcervically with a partial submandibulectomy. Postoperatively, the patient complained only of hoarseness.