PURPOSE: To enable a user to pass an automatic ticket examination while keeping a noncontact type card in a bag, etc., by providing another antenna for sending and receiving data to and from the noncontact type card on the flank of a main body on the side of a ticket examination passage.

CONSTITUTION: The transfer of data between the noncontact automatic ticket examination device body (a) and the card C1 that the user A has in the hand is performed by putting the card close to a 1st antenna 1a in a communication area 1 provided on the top surface of the main body (a) on the side of the entrance. The 2nd antenna 2b is set at height nearly corresponding to the bag B that the user A carries. Therefore, even when the user A holds the bag B containing the card C2 in one hand and have baggage in the other hand, the data can be sent and received between the card C2 in the bag and the 2nd antenna 2b.