Provided is an absorbent article which is capable of effectively avoiding contact between excreted bodily fluids and wearer's skin. The absorbent article includes: a body-contacting part including a canal member that has a pair of right and left head parts extending in the front-rear direction and having stretchability at at least part thereof, and a canal sheet in which both right and left edges thereof couple to the pair of right and left head parts and in which the center part thereof hangs downward at the time of wearing, and a fixing member that fixes the canal member to a wearer's body in order to allow the head parts of the canal member to make contact with the wearer's skin at the time of wearing, a body-non-contacting part including a leak preventer in sheet form that prevents leakage of a bodily fluid, and an absorber arranged on the upper side of the leak preventer and capable of absorbing the bodily fluid, wherein a passage is provided for transferring the bodily fluid from the upper side of the canal sheet onto a surface of the absorber, a part of an under surface of the canal sheet and a part of the surface of the absorber are coupled together, the absorber is made to maintain a state in which the absorber is spaced apart from the wearer's skin at the time of wearing, and when the wearer excretes the bodily fluid, the excreted bodily fluid is received on the upper side of the canal sheet, and thereafter the bodily fluid is transferred from the upper side of the canal sheet onto the surface of the absorber through the passage while shifting in the front-and-rear direction.
