PURPOSE: To provide a visitor reception counter provide with an unmanned receiving function for visitors and connected to a private telephone system.

CONSTITUTION: This counter is provided a front panel 7-1 provided without concealment on a wall surface material 33 of an entrance hall or the like and provided with an image pickup device 17, an image display device 18, a touch panel 24, a microphone 21 and a speaker 20, and an equipment housing part 7-2 projecting by formed on the rear side of the wall surface member 33 and connected to the front panel 7-1. At the connection part of the front panel 7-1 and the equipment housing part 7-2, a step 7-3 is provided so that the equipment housing part side can be dropped from the outer periphery of the front panel so that only the equipment housing part 7-2 can be embedded on the rear side of the wall surface member 33 while abutting the outer periphery of the front panel 7-1 on the inner periphery of an opening formed at the wall surface member 33. Then, a hinge mechanism provided at either the inside part of the outer periphery of the front panel 7-1 or the outside part of the outer periphery of the equipment housing part 7-2 or at one part of both of them so as to be pivotally supported on the surface of walls is provided and integrated with the surface member 33.