To provide a yarn winding method capable of preventing failure, heating and the loss of synchronism of a traverse guide driving motor 45, by winding while keeping a single winding number WN up to finishing winding from a start of the winding, by using a yarn winding unit 2 with a traverse device having a traverse guide 11 and a traverse guide driving motor 45, by providing a package driving motor 41 rotatingly driving winding bobbins 6 and 7 for winding yarn and the traverse device 5 traversing the yarn.

A rotating speed T of the package driving motor 41 is adjusted so that a rotating speed T of a traverse guide driving motor 45 becomes a limit rotating speed Tmax or less by a limit rotating speed reference control means 83 until a winding bobbin diameter D becomes a predetermined limit diameter Dend. After the winding bobbin diameter D reaches the limit diameter Dend, a rotating speed B of the package driving motor 41 is adjusted so that a yarn winding speed WS becomes a request yarn winding speed WSd by a yarn winding speed reference control means 85.