Fixing device and image forming apparatus

The invention provides a fixing device and an image forming apparatus. The fixing device includes: a fixing member; a heating member; an endless fixing belt rotatably erected on the fixing member andthe heating member; a pressing member that is pressed against the fixing member via a fixing belt to form a nip portion that transports the recording medium; a lubricant application unit that is disposed on the downstream side of the fixing member and on the upstream side of the heating member in the rotation direction of the fixing belt and applies a lubricant to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt; and a sliding member, and a heating member slidably provided on an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt on a downstream side of the lubricant application portion in a rotation direction of the fixing belt and on an upstream side of the heating member, the lubricant applying portion has a first downstream side end portion located on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the recording me