To ensure a favorable recording characteristic for a write-once recording medium for a bluish-purple laser, an optical information recording apparatus includes ways to write power to form recording marks, a space forming power to form spaces, a pulse width of a cooling pulse and ways to record information onto the optical information recording medium according to the setting of the write power, the setting of the space forming power and the setting of the pulse width of the cooling pulse. At this time, the pulse width of the cooling pulse and a ratio whose numerator is the write power and whose denominator is the space forming power have a preferable region of the recording characteristic, and information is recorded onto the optical recording medium by using values in this range.