diff --git a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RegionsResource.java b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RegionsResource.java
index 100dfd5de23..abb3aac7d80 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RegionsResource.java
+++ b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RegionsResource.java
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ public class RegionsResource extends ResourceBase {
     servlet.getMetrics().incrementRequests(1);
     try {
       TableName tableName = TableName.valueOf(tableResource.getName());
+      if (!tableResource.exists()) {
+        throw new TableNotFoundException(tableName);
+      }
       TableInfoModel model = new TableInfoModel(tableName.getNameAsString());
 
       Connection connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(servlet.getConfiguration());
diff --git a/hbase-rest/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/TestTableResource.java b/hbase-rest/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/TestTableResource.java
index 2551ee80325..443ebe3af69 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/TestTableResource.java
+++ b/hbase-rest/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/TestTableResource.java
@@ -257,4 +257,13 @@ public class TestTableResource {
     checkTableInfo(model);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testTableNotFound() throws IOException {
+    String notExistTable = "notexist";
+    Response response1 = client.get("/" + notExistTable + "/schema", Constants.MIMETYPE_JSON);
+    assertEquals(404, response1.getCode());
+    Response response2 = client.get("/" + notExistTable + "/regions", Constants.MIMETYPE_XML);
+    assertEquals(404, response2.getCode());
+  }
+
 }