The fractal-like character of the laminar flamelet surface in turbulent premixed combustion was studied to determine if the surface is truly a self-similar fractal or not. The turbulent burner flame of a lean methane-air mixture stabilized in an isotropic homogeneous turbulent flow was used, and the laser tomography technique was adopted to visualize the instantaneous image of two-dimensional sections of the surface. The analysis of the images in vertical and horizontal sections revealed that the surface actually exhibits fractal behavior in a narrow range of scale. The inner cutoff scale was the laminar flame thickness, while the outer cutoff scale was the burner size. The derived fractal-like character, represented in terms of the fractal dimension and the fractal degree, was found to depend on the orientation and position of the section. The fractal dimension was much smaller than those measured for nonreacting various turbulent flows, and was larger for the vertical section than the horizontal sections, and increased towards downstream. It increased with the turbulence intensity of the approach flow. However, it is suggested that the flamelet surface does not behave as a passive surface in the given turbulent flow, and hence the observed fractal-like character is not directly connected to the turbulence characteristics of the approach flow. It should rather represent certain aspects of the flamelet itself.