<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clothes dryer employing an air flow direction change device having reduced ventilation resistance, sending an air flow to the place of clothes to efficiently supply an air flow to the clothes, and efficiently drying the clothes with reduced energy, and to provide a clothes dryer having a sauna function. <;P>;SOLUTION: The clothes dryer uses the air flow direction change device 21 including a cylindrical louver 22, and flaps 23 disposed across the cylindrical louver 22 and having one flap inclined at an angle 28. Therefore the clothes dryer efficiently supplies the air flow to the place of clothes, and reduces clothes drying time. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT