A reforming apparatus for producing a reformed gas from a fuel gas and
steam, including a reformed gas-producing passage and a combustion gas
passage, the reformed gas-producing passage having reforming catalyst,
shift catalyst, and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections along a
flowing direction of the reformed gas, the reformed gas-producing passage
having a first passage adjacent to the combustion gas passage and
including the reforming catalyst section and a second passage adjacent to
the first passage, the second passage including a first heat-recovering
section adjacent to the reforming catalyst section, and the first passage
having a second heat-recovering section adjacent to one of the shift
catalyst and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections, the first
heat-recovering section located on an upstream side along the flow
direction of the reformed gas relative to the reforming catalyst section.