To provide a banknote processor for enhancing its operation rates, and also to provide a ticket processor.

The banknote processor 1 includes: a throw-in part 4 for collectively throwing-in a plurality of banknotes P in a plurality of kinds; take-out rollers 10 for taking out the throw-in banknotes P onto a carrier passage 12 one by one; a detecting part 30 for detecting the feature of the taken-out banknote; pile-up parts 51 and 52 for piling-up the banknotes P which are identified to be a specified kind by the detecting part 30; pile-up parts 42-46 for piling-up the banknotes other than the specified kind notes; and a pile-up part 41 for piling-up the banknotes P which are the specified kind but cannot piled-up in the pile-up part 51. When the specified kind of banknotes P cannot be piled-up in the pile-up parts 51 and 52 for sealing, the banknotes P identified to be the specified kind by the detecting part 30 are temporarily piled-up in the pile-up part 41 being assigned as a auxiliary pile-up part without stopping the take-out rollers 10.