An object of the present invention is to provide an internal permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine capable of maintaining compactness and high output and reducing vibration and noise caused by electromagnetic force. The rotating electrical machine of the present invention has an annular stator and a rotor that is arranged inside the stator with an air gap interposed between the stator and the rotor. The stator has a stator iron core provided with a plurality of slots at circumferential intervals and a coil received in each of the slots. The rotor has a rotor iron core, a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in a plurality of magnetic pole forming positions that are set along an outer circumference of the rotor iron core, an iron core section that faces the air gap and is magnetized by the permanent magnets to form a magnetic pole on an air gap fronting face at each of the magnetic pole forming positions, and an axially extending recess formed at a circumferentially central part of the air gap fronting face of each of the iron core sections.