A thermal image recording apparatus has: a thermal head having a glaze in which thermal recording dots are arranged in a one direction, the thermal head conducting thermal recording on a thermal recording material that is to be in contact with the glaze, and transporting the thermal recording material in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the thermal recording dots; heating unit, disposed downstream from the thermal head in the transport direction, for reheating the rear face opposite to the recording surface of the thermal recording material; and correcting and cooling unit for cooling the reheated thermal recording material while causing the rear face to be concaved.