An embodiment of a mobile terminal according to the present invention is a mobile terminal in which an upper housing is slidable relative to a lower housing. Two rotating plates are provided side by side along a lower surface of the upper housing, and rotation center points of the two rotating plates are rotatably supported by the upper housing. Two pivots are provided on the two respective rotating plates at points on circular paths having the same radius whose centers are the rotation center points of the rotating plates. The two pivots are rotatably supported by the lower housing so that the two pivots and the two rotation center points form the four corners of a parallelogram, and the two pivots are both located near a side edge of the lower housing.