A pickup device driving apparatus includes a base of which the position is
fixed with respect to a lens part, a movable part, a pickup device which
is attached to the movable part in a state that a pickup surface is
perpendicular to an optical axial direction, a first support part and a
second support part which support the movable part, a first rotating
part, a second rotating part, a third rotating part, and a fourth
rotating part, and a driving part for driving the pickup device such that
the position of the pickup device is changed relative to the lens part in
a state that rotating center axes form vertexes of a parallelogram.