To provide a transport apparatus that can realize a low-cost and simple configuration, can ensure high safety, is less severe in a space restriction, and can easily realize a configuration of transporting transported objects in a plurality of different directions.

A transport apparatus includes a plurality of transport units 2 allowing an operating unit 3 to reciprocate using falling motions of weights. The transport unit 2 includes: a transport wire 10 provided to move along a predetermined path; a large weight 11 moving the operating unit 3 from a predetermined standby position by falling in a state of being engaged with the transport wire 10; and a small weight 12 provided on a small-weight-side path part 10b of the transport wire 10, feeding the transport wire 10 in a return direction and returning the operating unit 3 to the standby position by falling. A plural transport units 2 that hold and release the holding of the large weights 11 by holding/release mechanisms make the fallings of the plural large weights 11 be interlocked with one another, and allow the large weights 11 of the respective transport units 2 to sequentially fall.