We prove the local asymptotic normality for the full parameters of the normal inverse Gaussian Lévy process X, when we observe high-frequency data XΔn,X2Δn,...,XnΔn with sampling mesh Δn → 0 and the terminal sampling time nΔn → ∞. The rate of convergence turns out to be (√nΔn, √nΔn, √n, √n) for the dominating parameter (α,β,δ,μ), where α stands for the heaviness of the tails, β the degree of skewness, δ the scale, and μ the location. The essential feature in our study is that the suitably normalized increments of X in small time is approximately Cauchy-distributed, which specifically comes out in the form of the asymptotic Fisher information matrix.