A progressive addition lens design method includes adjusting a lens surface shape to bring a difference between a first state when an object at a first location in a wearer's front and on the wearer's medial plane is visually recognized and a second state when an object at a second location positioned on the first location side in the horizontal direction at a constant height in the vertical direction is visually recognized in a plane parallel to a frontal plane and includes the first location at the time the lens is worn closer to a difference between a third state when an object at the first location is visually recognized and a fourth state when an object at the second location is visually recognized at the time a reference single focal lens corresponding to the progressive addition lens is worn or at the time equivalent to a naked eye.