A picking facility comprising: a transfer device for transferring an article from a first support body to a second support body; an image capture device for capturing, from above, an image of the article placed on the first support body; and a control device for controlling the transfer device, the transfer device including a holding portion for holding an upper portion of the article, wherein the control device performs height determination to determine a height of the article placed on the first support body, and orientation determination to determine whether or not an orientation of the article placed on the first support body is a normal orientation, based on image capture information from the image capture device, all articles have a rectangular-parallelepiped shape having a pair of reference outer faces, of a plurality of the articles supported by the first support body, the article located at a highest position and the article whose upper face is present in a range of a set distance downward from an upper face of the article located at the highest position are set as transfer-target articles, and the control device performs a selection control to preferentially select, from the transfer-target articles, a transfer-target article in the normal orientation, and a transfer control to control the transfer device so as to transfer the transfer-target article selected through the selection control from the first support body to the second support body, characterized in that the normal orientation is an orientation in which a shortest side of three sides extending from one vertex of the article extends in a vertical direction, a transfer device for transferring an article from a first support body to a second support body; an image capture device for capturing, from above, an image of the article placed on the first support body; and a control device for controlling the transfer device, the transfer device including a holding portion for holding an upper portion of the article, wherein the control device performs height determination to determine a height of the article placed on the first support body, and orientation determination to determine whether or not an orientation of the article placed on the first support body is a normal orientation, based on image capture information from the image capture device, all articles have a rectangular-parallelepiped shape having a pair of reference outer faces, of a plurality of the articles supported by the first support body, the article located at a highest position and the article whose upper face is present in a range of a set distance downward from an upper face of the article located at the highest position are set as transfer-target articles, and the control device performs a selection control to preferentially select, from the transfer-target articles, a transfer-target article in the normal orientation, and a transfer control to control the transfer device so as to transfer the transfer-target article selected through the selection control from the first support body to the second support body, characterized in that the normal orientation is an orientation in which a shortest side of three sides extending from one vertex of the article extends in a vertical direction,