To provide an evacuation apparatus which enables an evacuee to evacuate along the evacuation side wall of a building to a ground surface outside the building.

The evacuee can evacuate with friction welding strength caused from friction welding materials 30, 40 which is added to a rope 20 in an evacuation apparatus 10. When the evacuee sits on a sheet mat 90 connected to the evacuation apparatus 10, the weight of the evacuee adds the friction welding strength to the rope, and the evacuation apparatus 10 turns still. When the human body rides on the evacuation apparatus 10 and the evacuee holds a handle 50a at the end of an arm 50 and pulls down the handle 50a of the arm, the friction welding strength of the apparatus is released and the evacuation apparatus 10 goes down to the ground surface. Because of a relationship with the descending speed, the handle 50a of the arm is made go up and down in order to control the descending speed. As only a person can get on the evacuation apparatus 10, a cylindrical device 100 is put between the upper part of the rope of the evacuation apparatus, and more people can further evacuate by hanging human bodies on the evacuation belt of the cylindrical device 100.