A straddle-type vehicle including a vehicle body frame having a vehicle body, an engine supported by the vehicle body frame, a footrest disposed to a front lower portion of the engine, a footrest bracket for attaching the footrest to the vehicle body frame, and a braking unit. The braking unit includes a brake pedal arranged in the vicinity of the footrest and turned by a pedaling force of the rider, a master cylinder operated by the brake pedal, and a reservoir that supplies a hydraulic fluid to the master cylinder. The master cylinder is disposed behind the footrest bracket such that a cylinder axial line thereof is substantially horizontal and at least a part of a front half thereof overlaps with the footrest bracket as viewed from both a side of a vehicle and a bottom side thereof.