Overhead console

An overhead console comprising:

• a console housing attached to a ceiling of a vehicle interior at a location near a windshield;
• an illumination board on which an illumination light source is mounted and which is accommodated in the console housing;
• a vehicle interior checking mirror installed at a location closer to the windshield than the illumination board and arranged capable of being in a mirror surface visible position in which a mirror surface is visually recognizable by a passenger;
• a mirror surface light source that is mounted on the illumination board together with the illumination light source and that is configured to emit light toward the mirror surface of the vehicle interior checking mirror in the mirror surface visible position;
• and
• a see-through display plate that is a display plate capable of transparently displaying a symbol indicating predetermined information,
• wherein the see-through display plate is provided in the console housing at a location between the mirror surface light source and the mirror surface so as not to hinder the passenger from visually recognizing the mirror surface and so as to face a partial region of the mirror surface, and
• wherein the see-through display plate is configured to allow light from the mirror surface light source to transmit therethrough to display the symbol on the partial region of the mirror surface.