PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an outerwear, clothes, a sheet, or the like from getting dirty due to leakage of loose passage when a diaper is changed.SOLUTION: A pad type disposable diaper 200 includes: a liquid permeable top sheet 22 forming the surface a liquid-impermeable sheet 21 located at a back side an absorber 23 interposed therebetween and three-dimensional gathers 24 protruding to the front side, with both sides of the surface defined as root parts. The pad type disposable diaper further includes cup parts 27 recessed into a cup shape viewed from the surface side, at least in a rear side range with respect to the front ends of a crotch part C2 at portions extending laterally from protruding portions 24b of the three-dimensional gathers 24.
