An axial air gap type electric motor includes: a stator with stator cores in a ring shape around a rotating shaft and including a laminated iron core that is a prismatic body of metal plate-like members laminated in a radial direction of the rotating shaft, a tubular bobbin with an inner diameter into which the laminated iron core is inserted, and a coil wound on the extension of the outer diameter of the laminated iron core; and a rotor plane-facing the rotating shaft direction end section of the stator with a predetermined air gap interposed therebetween. The laminated iron core includes: a core member with continuously laminated metal plate-like members, the widths of which increase in a rotational direction of the rotating shaft from the center toward a radial direction; and a core member with continuously laminated metal plate-like members, the widths of which are substantially equal.