An endoscope of the invention includes: an LED for supplying illumination light to illuminate a subject an image pickup device for picking up an image of a region to be inspected of the subject a video display device 4 provided with a monitor portion 21 on which an endoscope image of the region to be inspected picked up by the image pickup device is displayed and an exterior member 4g for holding the monitor portion 21 a power supply control circuit 30 for supplying electric power to drive the LED and cause the LED to emit illumination light and a heat radiation portion for radiating heat generated by the power supply control circuit 30 formed on a rear surface 4b opposing to a disposition surface 4h of the exterior member 4g on which the monitor portion 21 of the video display device 4 is provided.
