To provide a container with which the freshness of cereals harvested at a growing district can be maintained by restraining a wetting-loss which may be produced when they are stored or shipped and a method for maintaining the freshness of cereals using the container.

A sheet having the function of absorbing and releasing moisture and the function of absorbing water is stuck on the ceiling of the container used for container transportation of the cereals at normal temperature. The subject is solved by using the container, on the ceiling of which the sheet having the function of absorbing and releasing moisture and the function to absorb water is stuck and shipping the container at the normal temperature when the cereal is shipped by container transportation.