A tape cartridge to be installed in a tape printing apparatus having a cartridge installation portion and a cutting portion that cuts off a tape-shaped member, the tape cartridge comprising: the tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction and projecting in the tape width direction; and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated so as to be capable of being paid out, wherein the tape cartridge may be installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the tape-shaped member based on passage detection of the detection target portions corresponding to the label portions to separate the label portions at a prescribed cut spot on the tape-shaped member at a cut position outside the cartridge case, the cartridge case has an exposed area, in which the respective detection target portions are exposed to detect passage of the respective detection target portions, on a feed path of the tape-shaped member, characterized in that a distance between a cut position of the cutting portion and an upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance between an end on a paying-out tip-end side of the detection target portion corresponding to any of the label portions and the cut spot of another of the label portions adjacent to the label portion concerned on the paying-out tip-end side in a tape feeding direction. the tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction and projecting in the tape width direction; and a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction and projecting in the tape width direction; and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated so as to be capable of being paid out, wherein the tape cartridge may be installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the tape-shaped member based on passage detection of the detection target portions corresponding to the label portions to separate the label portions at a prescribed cut spot on the tape-shaped member at a cut position outside the cartridge case, the cartridge case has an exposed area, in which the respective detection target portions are exposed to detect passage of the respective detection target portions, on a feed path of the tape-shaped member, characterized in that a distance between a cut position of the cutting portion and an upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance between an end on a paying-out tip-end side of the detection target portion corresponding to any of the label portions and the cut spot of another of the label portions adjacent to the label portion concerned on the paying-out tip-end side in a tape feeding direction.