An image recording apparatus includes; a recording unit which records on sheet-like recorded media; a cassette housing provided at a lower end of an apparatus casing and which houses a paper feeding cassette which accommodates the recorded media; a bottom plate provided on the lower surface of the cassette housing and which supports at least a part of a lower surface of the paper feeding cassette; an arm body which turns upward and downward according to a stacking amount of the recorded media in the paper feeding cassette; feed rollers arranged at an tip end of the arm body and which rotate while pressing the uppermost surface of the recorded media; and a restricting unit provided on the bottom plate in the apparatus casing and which avoids contact of the feed rollers with the bottom plate when the paper feeding cassette is pulled out of the apparatus casing.