This invention is intended to provide a method to quickly obtain a large
amount of normal human chondrocytes or a mass thereof without fear of
bacterial or viral infection. Namely, a method of producing human
chondrocytes characterized by comprising co-culturing chondrocytes
obtained from a cartilage having perichondrium, for example, auricular
cartilage together with the perichondrium; and a method of producing
human chondrocytes characterized by comprising monolayer or multilayer
seeding the cultured cells once or more and culturing to give a
chondrocyte mass.