A lens drive device is provided with: an AF drive unit that has an AF coil unit and an AF magnet unit and automatically carries out focusing by moving an AF movable unit with respect to an AF fixed unit, making use of drive force from a voice coil motor; and a base unit disposed with an intervening space on the image formation side of the AF drive unit in the direction of the optical axis. The AF drive unit has elastic support units connecting the AF movable unit and the AF fixed unit. The AF movable unit is affixed to the AF fixed unit by being pressed upward to the light receiving side in the direction of the optical axis by the AF magnet unit and urged toward the image formation side in the direction of the optical axis by the elastic support units.