To provide a cleaning device which enables a user to clean the overall surface to be cleaned easily with a minimum movement of the user's hand without efforts, and which can prevent a remaining dirty spot from spreading after the cleaning.

This cleaning device has a hard or slightly hard plate 1 with a first surface 2 and a second surface 6. An adsorbent material layer 3 is attached to the first surface 2, and a handling means 7 is attached to the second surface 6. The adsorbent material layer 3 is made of a felt polyurethane foam material, and is bonded to the base layer 4 made of a hydrophilic material which a cleaning liquid retained in the layer 3 can soak into.