To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.