To improve heat efficiency, shorten the length of a whole apparatus for space saving, and improve uniform drying in the green earthenware drying apparatus in which stable drying conditions are kept.

In a green earthenware drying apparatus in which a green earthenware is dried in a drying chamber during passage from an inlet 1a to an outlet 1b, the inside 1c of the drying chamber is divided into a constant drying-rate area A and a decreasing drying-rate area B, and inside/outside interruption devices 2 are provided at the inlet 1a and the outlet 1b of the drying chamber respectively, and an intermediate interruption apparatus 8 is provided between the constant drying-rate area A and the decreasing drying-rate area B. Hot air exhausted from the decreasing drying-rate area B is utilized as a heat source of a heating tool which radiates radiation heat into the decreasing drying-rate area A. There are parallely provided the constant drying-rate area A and the decreasing drying-rate area B. There is further provided a changeover device 27 for reversing the passage direction of the drying hot air passing through the inside of the drying chamber of the decreasing drying- rate area A.