To provide a capacitor mounting method which can attain a resistance and an inductance lower than those in the prior art and can sufficiently exhibit the performance of a capacitor even when a capacitor having terminals spaced by a distance shorter than a minimum via distance mountable on a printed circuit board is mounted, and to provide such a printed circuit board.

In the method of mounting a capacitor having terminals spaced by a distance shorter than a minimum via interval of the printed circuit board, sites of the printed circuit board at the terminals are cut to expose a power line or a grounding line to the air, and the terminals of the capacitor is directly soldered to the exposed power or grounding line.