A flush toilet includes a valve apparatus for spouting and stopping water to a storage tank or a toilet main unit supplied from a water supply source, and includes a pressurizing pump, being a reversely rotatable pump including a suctioning portion connected to the storage tank, a rim-side discharge portion connected to the toilet main unit rim spouting portion, a jet-side discharge portion connected to the toilet main unit jet spouting portion, and an impeller; and when the impeller is rotating in one direction, the pressurizing pump spouts flush water in the storage tank to the rim-side discharge portion, whereas when the impeller rotates in the other direction, the pressurizing pump spouts flush water in the storage tank to the jet-side discharge portion, or spouts flush water in the storage tank to both the rim-side discharge portion and the jet-side discharge portion.