An object of the present invention is to provide an optical disk device which is capable of forming a recording mark at a more suitable position by using a more suitable recording compensation value. To achieve the object above, the optical disk device of the present invention is a device which records recording data by forming a mark on an optical disk 9 by using a recording pulse 1 in accordance with the recording data, and includes an optical pickup and a control unit. The optical pickup includes a laser 7 which emits a laser beam 8 in accordance with a recording pulse 1 and an optical component to guides a laser beam 8 to the optical disk 9. The control unit controls the emission of the laser 7 by using a recording compensation value predetermined in accordance with an emission property of the laser 7.