To provide a pole receiving tool that allows a user to simply and easily attach and detach a laundry pole and prevents the laundry pole from easily dropping out of a pole receiving portion, and can be easily changed in position between a use position and a storage position and can be changed in position to the storage position while holding the laundry pole on a pole receiving arm.

A pole receiving tool comprises a support body and a pole receiving arm extending horizontally from the support body. A pole receiving portion for supporting a laundry pole is formed in the pole receiving arm, and is formed of a concave groove having an entrance portion and a storage portion positioned closer to an tip end or base end side of the pole receiving arm than to the entrance portion. One side wall of the concave groove is formed of an inclined face guiding the laundry pole from the entrance portion to the storage portion, and an upper part of the other side wall is located above the storage portion.