Disclosed is a hydrogen generation apparatus (10) equipped with a desulfurizer (7), to which raw material is supplied and which eliminates the sulfur compounds in said raw material, a reformer (17) that generates a hydrogen-containing gas from the raw material that has passed through said desulfurizer (7), a measuring instrument (3) that measures the amount of the sulfur compounds eliminated by the desulfurizer (7) (hereinafter, referred to as eliminated sulfur compound amount), and a controller (40). The controller (40) is constituted so that it will not allow the next cycle to start if the integrated value of the eliminated sulfur compound amount measured by the instrument (3) exceeds a first threshold value.