Absorbent article

Provided is an absorbent article (1) which is housed in a packaging material, has an up-down direction, a left-right direction, and a thickness direction that are orthogonal to each other, and comprises a coating section (R) on which a plurality of microcapsules are coated, the absorbent article (1) being characterized in that: both side end sections (S, S ') in the left-right direction; the absorbent article (1) has two side ends (S, S) which are folded inward in the left-right direction and inward in the thickness direction along a pair of left-right folding lines (SL) which extend in the vertical direction, the absorbent article (1) is folded along the vertical folding lines (CL) which extend in the left-right direction when the skin side surfaces are located inward, and the coating part (R) is provided at one of the two side ends (S) among the two side ends (S, S) and is applied to the other side end (S) of the two side ends (S, S). At least a portion of the coated portion (R) is provided at a position th