An object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope apparatus capable of acquiring an image which is easy to observe while realizing downsizing. For the above object, the endoscope apparatus is provided with: an image pickup unit 9 including a plurality of image pickup devices 31 and 32, and an optical path dividing section 34 for dividing a light beam entering from an objective lens 33 and leading the divided light beams to the respective plurality of image pickup devices, in which optical path lengths OLP1 and OLP2 of the plurality of light beams to be lead to the plurality of image pickup devices are caused to be different from each other； a contrast comparing section 43 for comparing contrasts of a plurality of images based on a plurality of image signals outputted from the plurality of image pickup devices, respectively； and an image selecting section 20 for selecting and outputting only an image signal from one image pickup device among the plurality of image pickup devices, on the basis of a result of the comparison by the contrast comparing section.
