To provide a storage box with excellent illumination efficiency capable of uniformly performing panel illumination.

A panel part 2 is a translucent light guide member. A light source support part 3 is interposed between the panel part 2 and it such that it is interlocked with opening/closing of the panel part 2 and the light sources 31a-31c are opposed to light receiving parts 21a-21c provided on the panel part 2 in the closed state of the panel and are opposed to an inner wall of a storage part 1 in the opened state of the panel. Therefore, in the closed state of the panel, the light given from the light sources 31a-31c is guided in the panel part 2, thereby, the whole of the panel part 2 is illuminated. Further, in the opened state of the panel, the inside of the storage part 1 is illuminated by the direct light from the same light sources 31a-31c.

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