In the ring type optical communication system of the present invention, in each OADM arranged on a ring network, an optical signal which has the same wavelength as the add wavelength assigned to a local node, of the optical signals of each wavelength contained in WDM light input from on the ring, is extracted from a drop port Pd without being terminated by a rejection/add filter, and input to an optical switch. In the optical switch, either one of the optical signal extracted from the rejection/add filter, or the add light added onto the ring from the local node, is selected, and the selected light is applied to the add port Pa of the rejection/add filter. As a result, communication between a central station and optional OADM nodes, and multicast communication over a plurality of ring networks can be realized by means of a simple node configuration.