A recording apparatus includes a roll paper holder including a shaft portion which holds a roll paper such that the roll paper is capable of being fed, a temporal placement portion on which the roll paper is temporarily placed, and a roll paper lifting device which includes a placement portion on which the roll paper is placed, and lifts the roll paper to a height position of the shaft portion of the roll paper holder while an end of the roll paper in the temporarily placed state is placed on the placement portion so as to position a core port of a roll core of the roll paper and the shaft portion.