diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_common.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_common.py
index 289f86eb2dc53..b527e3c5dc254 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_common.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_common.py
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ def test_read_fspath_all(self, reader, module, path):
         ('to_csv', {}, 'os'),
         ('to_excel', {'engine': 'xlwt'}, 'xlwt'),
         ('to_feather', {}, 'feather'),
-        ('to_hdf', {'key': 'bar', 'mode': 'w'}, 'tables'),
         ('to_html', {}, 'os'),
         ('to_json', {}, 'os'),
         ('to_latex', {}, 'os'),
@@ -171,6 +170,26 @@ def test_write_fspath_all(self, writer_name, writer_kwargs, module):
 
             assert result == expected
 
+    def test_write_fspath_hdf5(self):
+        # Same test as write_fspath_all, except HDF5 files aren't
+        # necessarily byte-for-byte identical for a given dataframe, so we'll
+        # have to read and compare equality
+        pytest.importorskip('tables')
+
+        df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2]})
+        p1 = tm.ensure_clean('string')
+        p2 = tm.ensure_clean('fspath')
+
+        with p1 as string, p2 as fspath:
+            mypath = CustomFSPath(fspath)
+            df.to_hdf(mypath, key='bar')
+            df.to_hdf(string, key='bar')
+
+            result = pd.read_hdf(fspath, key='bar')
+            expected = pd.read_hdf(string, key='bar')
+
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
 
 class TestMMapWrapper(object):