To provide a lighting device that uses an LED as a light source to emit mixed-color light, the lighting device being capable of suppressing a change in color of the emitted light even when the use time becomes long and also suppressing an individual difference in color of the emitted light small.

The lighting device has an LED element, a structure on which the LED element is mounted, and a cover member having a transmission part where the light emitted by the LED element is passes through, wherein a fluorescent member for converting the wavelength of the LED element is arranged at the transmission part of the cover member and is arranged apart from the LED element.