A method for driving an AC type surface discharge structure plasma display panel according to an electrode wiring structure is provided. In the method for driving the AC plasma display panel, there is a phase difference of no more than 180° between the sustaining pulse applied to the Y electrode and the sustaining pulse applied to the X electrode in the three-electrode structure AC type plasma display panel in order to secure time for sustaining uniform wall charge and space charge characteristics. An address time slot constituted of a plurality of data pulses is set in a temporal margin space secured by collecting a plurality of sustaining pulses into a group. The data of each address time slot is assigned to time slots of a plurality of sub fields and is addressed.