To provide a valve apparatus for meeting specific needs and a faucet including such the valve apparatus.

The valve apparatus includes a fixed side apparatus part and a movable-side apparatus part and is changed from a water stop state to a water flow state when an operation part is rotatively operated. The valve apparatus includes an operation load addition means having parts to be pressed 10K and 10L provided on one side of the fixed-side apparatus part and the movable-side apparatus part, and pressing parts 66T and 66T provided on the other side and pressing the parts to be pressed 10K and 10L while being movable in a radial direction of a transmission shaft (spindle 40) with pushing force provided which causes it to return to a position of the starting point. The parts to be pressed 10K and 10L gradually increase a distance from a rotation shaft center of the transmission shaft (spindle 40) while drawing a roughly circular route along one rotation direction around the rotation shaft center of the transmission shaft (spindle 40).