To provide the laundry housing device of reduced power consumption provided with the display device of an improved service life.

In this laundry housing device provided with the display device 6 provided with a display device main body and an illumination device (back light), a human body sensor 9 for detecting whether or not a person is present near the laundry housing device is provided. Also, the illumination device is lighted after detecting the human body detection signals, the lighting of the illumination device is continued until display duration time elapses after the detection of the human body detection signals stops and the illumination device is put out thereafter. Thus, since the unrequired lighting time of the illumination device is reduced, the service life of the display device is improved and the power consumption is reduced.