Disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescent device including: an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, a naphthacene compound layer containing a naphthacene compound, and an electron transport layer; the light-emitting layer being composed of a light-emitting guest material and an aromatic hydrocarbon compound having the skeleton of anthracene, and the naphthacene compound layer containing no less than 80 wt % of naphthacene compound represented by the formula (1) below and having a thickness of 0.5 to 10 nm and being in contact with that side of the electron transport layer which faces the light-emitting layer.