Patent ID: 7756636

Claim:
A navigation apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives an input for a departure place and a destination; a transmitting unit that transmits to a retrieving server information for the departure place and the destination accepted by the receiving unit; a route acquiring unit that acquires from the retrieving server information showing transportations to be used in each of a plurality of section routes to be included in a route that connects the departure place and the destination, the transportations being retrieved from the retrieving server based on the information for the departure place and the destination transmitted by the transmitting unit; a guiding unit that performs a guidance based on the route; and a guidance controller that controls the guiding unit to perform the guidance, wherein the route acquiring unit acquires the information showing transportations for all sections including not only a walk section but also sections where the public transportation system is used using the departure place and the destination without the need for a user to specify conditions as to what transportation is used in the section routes and without the need for a user to specify where the user gets on and off public transportation systems to be used in the section routes, and the guidance controller controls the guiding unit to perform the guidance for a section route in which the public transportation system is not used as the transportation, when an instruction on whether to perform the guidance in the section route is received and an instruction to perform the guidance is received whereas not to perform the guidance for section routes in which the public transportation system is used.