PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging container and a packaged commodity in which even though packaging containers storing commodities on display therein are piled up, the packaging container located below can be taken out to allow the commodities in the packaging container to be visually recognized without opening the lids of the packaging container.SOLUTION: A packaging container 1 comprises: a rectangular bottom plate 5; a transparent front face plate 7 raised from the edge of the front face side of the bottom plate 5; a back face plate 8 raised from the edge of the back face side of the bottom plate 5; and a transparent left lateral face plate 6L and a transparent right lateral face plate 6R raised respectively from the left and right side edges of the bottom plate 5. Further the container configures a container 2 by opening an upper face portion 13, where the upper face portion 13 of the container 2, the back face plate 8 and the bottom plate 5 are continuously covered with a plate-like cover 3 an