A wet type air cleaner includes a purification unit which includes an inner guide portion for drawing a cleaning water upward, a water jetting nozzle for injecting the cleaning water drawn thereto through the inner guide portion, and a blower for drawing air downward. An outer guide portion is separately installed at an outside of the inner guide portion and with a gap therebetween to allow the air downwardly drawn by the blower and the droplets injected from the water jetting nozzle to flow into the cleaning water. The inner guide portion has a guide formed on its inner wall for upward drawing of the cleaning water and the outer guide portion has a guide formed on its inner walls for downward drawing of the air.