RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION METHOD AND INFORMATION REPRODUCTION APPARATUS

摘要

Provided is an information recording/reproduction apparatus including: a recording request receiving unit for receiving a recording request for recording information on an information recording medium including two or more recording layers; and a recording unit for recording the information by, limiting the number of recording layers including an area with information recorded thereon to a predetermined value N (N≧0) or less with respect to other recording layers in which the light passes therethrough until light reaches an unrecorded area of a recording layer as a recording target. According to this configuration, it is possible to guarantee the recording quality of a multilayered information recording medium.