This cage movement restricting device is equipped with: a fixing member which is provided to one of a hoistway and a cage; a movable member which is provided to the other one of the hoistway and the cage, and which can move between a cage movement-restricting position and a cage movement-permitting position; and a switch that detects a state in which the movable member is at the cage movement-permitting position, wherein the movable member has a stopper part, the fixing member has a receiving part, the stopper part being at the cage movement-restricting position is situated so as to abut the receiving part when the cage moves, whereas the stopper part being at the cage movement-permitting position is situated so as not to interfere with the receiving part when the cage moves, and the movable member has an elastic body attached thereto that keeps the movable member at the cage movement-permitting position.