Translation guide
How to express 'cold storage' in Japanese, covering refrigeration, freezing, and data archiving.
Storing items in a cool or refrigerated environment to preserve them.
General term for refrigeration or cold storage, often used for food and perishables.
This food requires cold storage.
Specifically means 'cold storage preservation', commonly used in instructions and labels.
Please keep refrigerated after opening.
Refrigerator. Use when referring to the appliance itself, not the concept of cold storage.
Please put it in the refrigerator.
Storing items at freezing temperatures.
A large-scale refrigerated warehouse for commercial storage.
Storing data that is rarely accessed, often for long-term retention.
Loanword from English, commonly used in IT contexts for infrequently accessed data storage.
This data has been moved to cold storage.
Technical term for 'infrequent access storage', sometimes used as a more descriptive alternative.
Save to infrequent access storage.
冷蔵 (refrigeration) is above freezing, typically 0–10°C. 冷凍 (freezing) is below freezing, typically -18°C or lower. Use the correct term based on temperature.
Refrigeration is higher in temperature than freezing.
A 'cold room' (walk-in cooler) is often called 冷蔵室 (れいぞうしつ) or 冷凍室 (れいとうしつ), not 冷蔵倉庫, which implies a large warehouse.
Specifically 'frozen storage preservation', similar to 冷蔵保存 but for freezing.
It will last longer if you freeze it.