Abstract: There is provided a thin film magnetic head, with letting a distance of a portion, where a width of a track portion in an upper magnetic pole changes, from a flying plane from a medium be Ly, and letting a distance of a portion, where a distance between right and left of a surface portion in a lower magnetic pole in a track width direction is wider than the width of the upper magnetic pole in the track width direction, from the flying plane from a medium be Tp, by creating a thin film magnetic head that is equipped with a recording head that has a relation of Tp≦Ly, it becomes possible to reduce a needless leakage magnetic field in the track width direction with securing magnetic field strength.