<p>A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening that is provided in an upper portion and from which a left hand and a right hand can be inserted in parallel; a rear wall section that faces the hands inserted from the hand insertion section; a front wall section that faces the hands and the rear wall section; a pair of air nozzle sections that is set of a side the rear wall section to extend in a vertical directions roughly along an overall length of the inserted hands, and that jets a high-speed airflow obliquely downward toward the hands; and a lateral opening section that allow the airflow jetted from the air sections to flow out after a hand drying process. The pair of air nozzle sections is arranged such that a space on a side of the hand insertion opening is wide and a space on a far side is marrow to be almost parallel with directions of the inserted hands.</p>
