Abstract: A ceramic wiring substrate and method for manufacturing the same, the substrate having an up-and-down conduction body which is made by forming a porous structure body from a high melting point metal and then infiltrating a low-resistance metal in an up-and-down conduction hole subsequently formed in a substrate made in a plate shape through sintering a ceramic precursor, the conduction body having a normal composite structure without an abnormally grown particle, a void, a crack and the like and not having a problem of falling off from the substrate, as well as provided a semiconductor device using this substrate. An intermediate layer formed of at least one selected from a group of Mo, W, Co, Fe, Zr, Re, Os, Ta, Nb, Ir, Ru and Hf is formed on an inner surface of the up-and-down conduction hole of the substrate before being provided with the conduction body having the composite structure.