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 (H) for controlling the transfer device , the transfer device including a holding portion for holding an upper portion of the article , wherein the control device (H) 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 (F), 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 (D) downward from an upper face of the article located at the highest position are set as transfer-target articles , and the control device (H) 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 (SC) is an orientation in which a shortest side of three sides extending from one vertex of the article extends in a vertical direction (Z), 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 (H) for controlling the transfer device , the transfer device including a holding portion for holding an upper portion of the article , wherein the control device (H) 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 (F), 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 (D) downward from an upper face of the article located at the highest position are set as transfer-target articles , and the control device (H) 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 (SC) is an orientation in which a shortest side of three sides extending from one vertex of the article extends in a vertical direction (Z), <EOS>