PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bending operation device for an endoscope that can simplify a configuration in a bending operation part and is advantageous in reducing the size of the entire bending operation part, and can lower manufacturing cost, and to provide an endoscopic apparatus including the bending operation device.SOLUTION: The bending operation part 31 includes a frictional force retaining part 50 that maintains a bending state in a bending part by retaining a tilt operation position of an operation axis 32a to which the tilt operation is applied by a frictional force when an O-ring 39 provided in a wire fixation part 36a of the bending operation unit 31 is press-contacted on a hemispherical guide surface 38a of a frame 38 configuring the operation part.
