A surface acoustic wave device includes one-terminal-pair SAW series resonators and one-terminal-pair SAW parallel resonators arranged in a ladder configuration. Among the series resonators, the resonant frequencies of, for example, two series resonators forming the pass band are lower than the anti-resonant frequency of the parallel resonators forming the pass band. A capacitive area of one of the series resonator is disposed in an inductive area formed by the parallel resonators forming the pass band and the other series resonators forming the pass band.