An information recording method including irradiating a phase change
recording layer of an optical recording medium with either a multi-pulse
laser light train having a recording power of Pw or laser light having an
erasing power Pe to record a mark having a length nT in the recording
layer, wherein n is an integer of from 3 to 14 and T represents a clock
cycle, wherein the multi-pulse laser light train has a constitution such
that a heating pulse and a cooling pulse are alternated and the number of
heating pulses and the number of cooling pulses each increases by 1 when
n increases by 2, and wherein when n is from 6 to 14, the last heating
pulse and last cooling pulse have a pulse width of from 0.5T to 0.9T and
from 0.7T to 1.5T, respectively.