To solve such problems that since a filling needle is fixed to a lift, a tip of the filling needle comes into contact with an upper end of a shaft cylinder possibly to have the cylinder broken when the needle lowers if the shaft cylinder is shifted from a normal position, and in addition when a climbing shaft lowers, a liquid filling apparatus transfers to a next operation, that is a process of filling ink, and resultingly the ink is discharged to a part other than the shaft cylinder.

The liquid filling apparatus to a container includes a mount 3 on which a container 2 for receiving a liquid is mounted, and a lift 5 which comes closer to/farther away from the container, while the lift is equipped with the filling needle 9 for filling the liquid into the container and the filling needle 9 is movably kept.