An article storage facility and a method for storing an article

An article storage facility according to the present invention includes: an operation receiving unit that transport the shipping container, supplying an inert gas supplying unit an inert gas to the interior accommodated in the housing portion of the shipping container, and controls the transport means with respect to the inert gas supply It means the operation of the flow rate control means adjusting portion. The control device is configured so as storage feed state, the receiving portion is not accommodated in the transport container an inert gas supply unit corresponding to the state of accommodating the inert gas supply unit has a housing portion shipping container corresponding to a state is supplied after the stop state, and the occasion of shipping container to the storage portion of the housing, the inert gas supply section in a state of the storage portion with the destination corresponding to the stopped state before the supply from the supply is switched to the state of the storage, the transport vessel to the storage portion housing.