Data errors are sufficiently corrected and desired transmission quality is obtained even when the time variation of fading is large in a multicarrier transmission scheme communication system to which HARQ is applied. A transmission apparatus 100 is applied to a communication system in which the transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus perform automatic repeat request control therebetween, and has a subcarrier spacing setting section 111 that sets the subcarrier spacing used in transmitting a retransmission signal to be larger than the subcarrier spacing used in transmitting a first transmission signal, an IFFT section 112 that performs IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) on an input signal based on the subcarrier spacing set in the subcarrier spacing setting section 111, and a transmission section 102 that transmits the first transmission signal and at least one retransmission signal.