Information is recorded and reproduced with high quality by all of the information layers of an optical information recording medium. A recording wavelength generator (112) selects control parameters of a recording pulse sequence for forming marks, on the basis of combinations of a mark length of a mark, a first space length of a first space immediately before the mark, and a second space length of a second space immediately after the mark. A laser drive circuit (111) records the marks by the recording pulse sequence determined by the selected control parameters. The first space length is classified into m types (m is an integer) and the second space length is classified into n types (n is an integer). An absolute value of a difference between two predetermined control parameters from among (m×n) control parameters selected during recording on a second information layer located on an incidence side of the laser beam with respect to a predetermined first information layer from among N information layers is equal to or greater than an absolute value of a difference between two predetermined control parameters from among the (m×n) control parameters selected during recording on the first information layer.