The present invention provides a recording apparatus and a recording method which can correct the recording position while the burden of the user is reduced. The recording apparatus (1) is used for recording the recording medium (P) with a cylindrical lens raster (RL). For aiming at the recording medium (P) which is loaded at the loading part with a positioned state in the aligning direction of the lens element (L), the distance information between the edge along the arragement direction of the lens element (L), namely a reference edge (Ea) that beomes the reference for recording the positionand a preset reference position (HP) is obtained, and the recording position to the recording medium (P) is corrected according to the distance information.