A control section of a recording apparatus is configured to execute control of overlapping transportation in which a preceding medium and a following medium are transported in a state in which a rear end region of the preceding medium and a leading end region of the following medium overlap at least in a partial section in an upper transport route, and determines an overlapping dimension Lk that is a dimension, by which the rear end region of the preceding medium and the leading end region of the following medium overlap, in accordance with a route dimension Ld from a third feed roller pair to an edge of an introducing port in a second direction, when executing the control of the overlapping transportation.