A tape cassette wherein, on one of the central upper portion of a reel and
a pressure mechanism, there is disposed a center pin, on the other, there
is formed a contacting flat plate portion with which the center pin can
be contacted, one of the center pin and contacting flat plate portion is
molded mainly of polyacetal-system synthetic resin, the other is molded
mainly of polybutylene-system or polyethylene-system synthetic resin, and
inorganic powder is added to at least one of these two kinds of synthetic
resin.