An endoscope including: a tube having flexibility and extending from a hand side to a distal end side along a longitudinal direction, the tube being provided to an insertion portion configured to be inserted into an object； and a strand formed by twining a plurality of wires each other and arranged so as to extend in the tube, the strand having a distal end portion fixed to a distal end side of the tube, wherein the strand is pulled from the hand side of the tube and a twining direction of the plurality of wires of the strand is reversed in a middle of extension in the tube.
