The invention provides a washing machine comprising an operation panel arranged on a washing machine body and used for various settings and a control unit used for controlling the operation panel. The operation panel comprises a plurality of operation portions for users to perform touch operation, a plurality of setting display portions used for displaying setting contents corresponding to the operation portions, an operation detection unit used for detecting the touch operation for the operation portions, and a display unit used for switching the display and non-display of the display portions. The setting display portions are displayed as a first display showing current available setting contents and a second display showing current unavailable setting contents by the control unit.