An image recording apparatus recording motion picture data and still image data includes a management time adding unit that adds frame image display management times to temporally continuous multiple pieces of frame image data in the motion picture data; a management time detecting unit that detects the frame image display management time as a still image display management time; a presence indication data generating unit that generates presence indication data indicating that the still image data exists on the basis of the still image display management time; a multiplexing unit that outputs the motion picture data as recording data while only the motion picture photography is performed and that performs time division multiplexing to output the presence indication data and the motion picture data if the still photography is performed during the motion picture photography; and a recording unit that records the recording data.