To provide a silent drum type clothes dryer improved in drying efficiency to economize electric charges regarding the drum type clothes dryer for enclosing and drying clothes or the like in a rotating drum.

This drum type clothes dryer for enclosing and drying the clothes or the like in the rotating drum is provided with a heating device for directly heating the rotating drum, inside an outer case of the dryer which faces the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum. A non-contact type heating device such as a microwave heating device, an electromagnetic induction heating device or an infrared heating device is provided as the heating device.