An optical pickup device has an astigmatism element, a polarization setting element, and a polarizer. The astigmatism element converges laser light reflected on a disc in a first direction and a second direction to form a first focal line and a second focal line. The polarization setting element makes polarization directions of light fluxes different from each other, the light fluxes being obtained by dividing a light flux of the laser light transmitted through the astigmatism element into two by a straight line parallel to the first direction. The polarizer transmits light having polarization directions obtained by inverting the polarization directions set by the polarization setting element with respect to the straight line parallel to the first direction, respectively.