To provide a refrigerator which can improve convenience while suppressing costs.

In a refrigerator 1 including a door 5 for opening and closing a storage compartment 3, and an operation panel 40 disposed on a front face of the door 5 and having a plurality of operation switches 45 for executing prescribed set operations, the operation panel 40 has a light guide plate 50 disposed while facing the operation switches 45, and light sources 51 disposed while facing incident faces 50a formed of end faces of the light guide plate 50.