To provide a picking system capable of order picking and a short lead time, and adaptable to a large scale system too.

In a goods picking facility for charging an ordered goods into carrying vessels 1 carried on a main carrying line Lb, a picking area is equipped with plural goods picking islands P1 provided at every different goods group, and the respective islands P1 are equipped with attached goods warehouses 20, goods charging stations 21 for charging goods taken out from the warehouses 20 into the carried carrying vessel, and goods picking lines PL1 branched from the line Lb to join into the line Lb to be joined into the line Lb again via the stations 21. The respective vessels 1 can be entered at random from the line Lb to the respective lines PL1 and also can be joined at random to the line Lb.