Abstract: To order to provide an RF receiving coil having a structure that can be safely mounted on an object and an MRI apparatus including the RF receiving coil, the RF receiving coil includes a main body having one or more flexible closed conductor loops for receiving a nuclear magnetic resonance signal, a flexible outer cover section that covers the closed conductor loop, a preamplifier section that amplifies the nuclear magnetic resonance signal received by the closed conductor loop, and a housing section in which the preamplifier section is housed and which is more rigid than the outer cover section. The RF receiving coil is mounted on the object in a state where the main body is bent such that the end surfaces of both ends of the main body face each other, and the MRI apparatus performs imaging using such an RF receiving coil.