To provide a rotary chair by which reverse rotation of the chair can be done without contacting with a table by a mechanism in which the rotation position of the chair is displaced rearward from the center of the chair.

The rotary chair is constituted of a turntable 30 rotatable in right and left directions and a chair body 1 in which a seat section 9 and a backrest section 10 which are integrally formed on a base plate 2 are supported by a leg body 4, and the base plate 2 is secured onto the turntable 30 with the center of the chair body 1 different from the rotary center of the turntable 30.