An inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head having a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting photo-curable ink, the ink ejection openings being formed along a feeding direction of the recording medium; a light irradiation device for irradiating the ejected ink; a moving unit for reciprocally moving the recording head and the light irradiation device in a main scanning direction; a feeding unit for feeding the recording medium in the feeding direction by a predetermined amount at a time; and a control unit for ejecting ink needed for forming one band by reciprocally scanning the recording head n times to record an image, wherein the inkjet recording apparatus irradiates the ink ejected in respective scans of first to (n−1)th scans with the light at the respective scans and the inkjet recording apparatus irradiates the ink ejected in the nth scan at one of the (n+1)th and subsequent scans.