A head supporting device includes a supporting arm that is swingable in a plane parallel to a recording surface of a recording medium around a first swing axis and in a plane perpendicular to the recording surface of the recording medium around a second swing axis, a head that is attached to one end of the supporting arm so as to be opposed to the recording medium, a holding member that is allowed to swing around the first swing axis in conjunction with a swinging motion of the supporting arm around the first swing axis, and signal wiring that performs signal sending/receiving with respect to the head. The signal wiring is arranged so that from the head, the signal wiring runs through the supporting arm and the holding member in this order and then is connected to an electric circuit. Thus, the attitude of the supporting arm around the second swing axis is not affected by a reaction force generated when the signal wiring is bent due to a swinging motion of the supporting arm around the first swing axis.