To provide a carrying mechanism, carrying a card-like medium by making the medium be brought into slide-contact with a carriage reference face, smoothly getting the card-like media together, and preventing breakage of the card-like media even if the medium is weak in strength, and to provide a card reader having the carrying mechanism.

A carrying mechanism of card-like medium having a carrying passage formed of a flat face part and a curved face part and having the carrying reference face 13 with which the card-like medium is brought into slide-contact and carried. A carrying roller (for example, a carrying roller 8a), whose one side opposite to the carrying reference face 13 is supported to be displaced depending on carrying directions, is disposed near the boundary of the flat face part and the curved face part.