PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer device responding to a request for high movement precision, and a cultivation system using the transfer device.SOLUTION: A transfer device which has a transfer unit moving vertically and laterally in a frontage direction and a height direction of a storage shelf comprising multiple storage parts that are vertically and laterally arranged in parallel with each other, and which transfers a transferred object relative to the storage parts by using the transfer unit includes: a body to be detected that is attached at a predetermined position of the storage parts, and has a size corresponding to a predetermined allowance range with respect to a stop position in the case where the transfer unit stops at a position corresponding to the storage part; a detector which is fixed at a predetermined position of the transfer unit in order to detect the body to be detected; and a determination part which determines whether or not the body to be detected has been detected by the detector in the case where the transfer unit has stopped at the position corresponding to the storage part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1