A new intrusive, wire‐mesh capacitance tomography for phase distributions in horizontal pipes is presented. A wire with an insulating film is used as a capacitor. The capacitance is in direct proportion to water film thickness, independent of water distribution and the salinity. We can obtain film thickness by measurement of capacitance. The sensor consists of four parallel wire capacitors, vertically placed over the cross section of the pipe. The interface is the result of linking the discrete film thicknesses with smooth curve, which are the tomographic result only when both phases are continuous. Static and dynamic experiments were carried out in air‐water two‐phase flows in horizontal pipes, from which we analyze the disturbance factors of the sensor to the flow field and measurement error of film thickness. The experimental results show that the tomographic results are consistent with expectation. The method has several advantages of no reconstructed algorithms, high signal‐to‐noise ratio, high sensi...