PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pants type disposable diaper capable of obtaining excellent touch close to underwear pants when putting on the diaper.SOLUTION: The pants type disposable diaper 1 includes an absorptive body 2 including an absorptive core and an exterior body 3 positioned on the non-skin-abutting surface side of the absorptive body 2 and fixing the absorptive body 2, and both side edge parts of an abdominal side part and both side edge parts of back side part are bonded to form a waist opening and a pair of leg openings. On the peripheral edge part of the waist opening, a waist elastic expansion/contraction part 4 having such a configuration that a plurality of waist elastic members 41 are disposed between two sheets configuring the exterior body is provided. More on the crotch part side than the waist elastic expansion/contraction part in the abdominal side part A and/or the back side part B, a pattern bonding part 5, where the two sheets are partially bonded by many bonding parts 52 formed in a scattered state and the elastic member is not disposed, is provided.