The present disclosure provides a freeze-drying container which includes a container body storing liquid to be freeze-dried and a first heat transfer body being in contact with the liquid to be freeze-dried and a cold source and in which the container body is a non-heat transfer body or a second heat transfer body of which at least a part is in contact with a liquid surface of the liquid to be freeze-dried and the cold source and at least one of a first shortest distance between an arbitrary point on the liquid surface of the liquid to be freeze-dried and the first heat transfer body or a second shortest distance in the liquid surface between the arbitrary point on the liquid surface of the liquid to be freeze-dried and the second heat transfer body is 20 mm or less.