In a configuration in which a downlink control channel is enhanced, the present invention is designed to adequately allocate downlink control signals to radio resources for the enhanced control channel. An allocation section that allocates a downlink control signal to both of a first control region from the first OFDM symbol to a predetermined OFDM symbol in a subframe, which is a transmission time interval, and a plurality of second control regions, each of which is frequency-division-multiplexed with a data region in a region after the predetermined OFDM symbol and is formed in a predetermined resource block size, or allocates the downlink control signal only to the second control regions, and a transmission section that transmits the downlink control signals to a user terminal are provided, and the allocation section forms the plurality of second control regions such that each second control region includes a plurality of enhanced control channel elements, each of which is an allocation unit of downlink control information, and also divides the enhanced control channel elements, and performs distributed mapping such that the divided enhanced control channel elements are distributed over the plurality of second control regions of varying frequency bands.