A method for recording/reproducing an optical recording medium of phase change type is provided. The method enables a high density recording while increase in the cross erase is suppressed. The method also enables an accurate tracking while increase in the crosstalk is suppressed. The method is adapted for use with an optical recording medium of phase change type comprising a substrate having a thickness of up to 0.8 mm wherein lands and grooves on opposite sides of the land are formed on the surface, and both the lands and the grooves are used as recording tracks, and the medium is overwritten at a recording power Pw (mW) and an erasing power Pe (mW) which meet the relation: (Pw/Pe).times.k.sup.2 .ltoreq.8.5, when the medium has a recording track pitch P (.mu.m), the recording/reproducing optical system has a numerical aperture NA, and the recording/reproducing light has a wavelength .lambda. (.mu.m) which meet the relation: k=(.lambda./NA)/P.gtoreq.1.78.