Patent ID: 8090528

Claim:
A navigation apparatus, comprising: a current position obtaining unit that obtains a current position of a vehicle; a searching region setting unit that sets, based on the current position of the vehicle obtained by the current position obtaining unit, a plurality of searching regions to search for facilities in a display target area of a display a facility information obtaining unit that obtains information regarding facilities located in the plurality of searching regions set by the searching region setting unit; and a guidance unit that provides guidance regarding the information related to the facilities obtained by the facility information obtaining unit, wherein the display target area includes a vicinity area in which the current position of the vehicle is located and a distant area that is distant from the current position of the vehicle compared to the vicinity area, and the searching region setting unit sets a first searching region centered on the current position of the vehicle included in the vicinity area as a searching region to search for facilities located in the vicinity area, and sets a second searching region centered on a searching point specified in the distant area as a searching region to search for facilities located in the distant area.