To provide a method for storing tows, capable of preventing a tow from being entered in other holding chamber than that desired and enabling the tow to be drawn out without causing the tangle and/or irregularly tense part in the tow when storing tows in a holding can divided into a plurality of holding chambers.

When dividing cans 2 and 3 for storing tows T into a plurality of holding chambers A-D and when storing tows T in each of the chambers A-D one after another, the method of this invention is to receive a tow T above each of the cans 2 and 3 temporarily and to start storing the tow T in an empty holding chamber after the empty chamber is moved to the position for storing a tow T at a point in time that the storage of a tow switches from a holding chamber where the storage of a tow has finished to an empty holding one.