PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging optical system which is compact and yet offers a wide view angle and high imaging performance, and to provide an optical device having the same.SOLUTION: An imaging optical system, which is configured to form an image that is concavely curved toward the object side, includes an object-side optical surface located on the most object side and an image-side optical surface located on the most image side, and satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4): 0≤Re/R1<0.8 ...(1), Re/TL<0 ...(2), EXP60/f<0 ...(3), 0