A cultivation apparatus and a cultivation method of a culture such as a cell or tissue. Provided are an incubator unit (4) for accommodating a culture and a lever (70) that penetrates through the incubator unit and can move in circular arc around a fulcrum as a center, the fulcrum being set at a wall of the incubator unit or in the vicinity thereof, then displacement is imparted to the culture by operating the lever. Bending force can be acted on the culture (cell construct 6) such as a cell or tissue, so that without any increase or decrease of a culture fluid (48) in the incubator unit, namely, without any increase or decrease of pressure to the culture fluid, displacement required for cultivation can be imparted to the culture in the incubator unit. By curving, continuous compression and extension are generated in a direction of thickness from a concave portion to a convex portion of the curving.
