Provided is a method for manufacturing granular iron, the method being capable of improving the quality of the granular iron by preventing re-oxidation of reduced iron obtained by heating and reducing agglomerates or of granular iron obtained by melting and condensing said reduced iron in a moving bed-type heating furnace. A method for manufacturing granular iron by charging and heating agglomerates containing iron oxide and a carbonaceous reducing agent on the furnace bottom of a moving bed-type heating furnace and, after reducing and melting the iron oxide in said agglomerates, discharging to the outside of the furnace the granular iron obtained and collecting same. The agglomerates have a covering layer containing a fluid carbon material on the surface.