An information recording apparatus of the type which includes recording means for recording digital information on an information recording medium from which recorded information is reproduced by an optical detection system which scans said information recording medium along pit rows by a light beam, wherein the improvement comprises that the recording means records each information pit so that edge positions of each information pit are shifted in a step-wise fashion from a predetermined reference position in response to digital information to be recorded, wherein said digital information is recorded as shift amounts of multiple stages of said edge positions, wherein said recording means records on said information recording medium an education pit, inserted into a pit row, whose edge positions are shifted in a step-wise fashion from said predetermined reference position in response to education data and which is predetermined in response to an insertion position.