An object of the present invention is to provide a novel medical application to regenerative medicine that uses pluripotent stem cells (Muse cells). The present invention provides a cell preparation for treating chronic kidney disease that contains SSEA-3-positive pluripotent stem cells isolated from mesenchymal tissue in the body or cultured mesenchymal cells. The cell preparation of the present invention is based on a renal tissue regeneration mechanism by which Muse cells are made to selectively accumulate at a site of kidney disease and differentiate into cells that compose the kidney by administering Muse cells intravenously to a subject having the aforementioned disease.