The coverage control method includes at least: step S101 of detecting that a load of an own cell is higher than a predetermined threshold (Lth1) when there is another cell whose coverage partially overlaps the own cell; step S103 of selecting an accommodation candidate cell that is a candidate to which a mobile station accommodated in the cell is unloaded, from the another cell based on a load condition related to a communication load that is a coverage control execution target; step S106 of selecting a continuously accommodated mobile station that is a mobile station that continues to be a coverage control target of the own cell, from the mobile station accommodated in the own cell based on radio quality of the selected accommodation candidate cell; and step S107 of controlling a coverage of the own cell by targeting at the selected continuously selected mobile station.