To provide a faucet capable of grasping the operation method and operation direction of an operation section with the touch of a hand and capable of surely preventing the erroneous operation of the operation section.

In a faucet having a switch action section 17 switching the water discharging direction to a shower 13 or a water discharge pipe 12 via a rotating action, the switch operation section 17 is formed into an asymmetric shape. In a faucet having an adjustment operation section conducting one of the mixing adjustment of hot-water/water and the flow adjustment of discharged water via a rotating operation and conducting the other via a tilting operation, the adjustment operation section may be formed into an asymmetrical shape. In a faucet having a water side operation section 15 conducting water quantity adjustment and a hot-water side operation section 16 conducting hot-water quantity adjustment, the water side operation section 15 and the hot-water side operation section 16 may be formed into different shapes respectively.