Patent ID: 8725341

Claim:
A navigation apparatus for providing a user with route guidance to a destination, the apparatus comprising: a processor, the processor is configured to determine, from a service number determination unit, a service number of a vehicle service based on a user input; determine, a destination determination unit, as the destination of the guidance, a terminal-related place in an entire vehicle boarding place of the vehicle service based on the service number determined by the service number determination unit; acquire, by a service information acquisition unit, from an information center, service information of the vehicle service having the service number determined by the service number determination unit, the service information including a schedule diversion condition of the determined service number of the vehicle service; provide, in a guidance provision unit, the user with diversion advisory guidance regarding diversion of the terminal-related place from an original terminal-related place that is originally determined by the destination determination unit based on the acquired service information of the vehicle service; and change, in the guidance provision unit, the terminal-related place determined by the destination determination unit according to the acquired service information of the vehicle service and provide the user with updated guidance, when the schedule diversion condition of the determined service number is acquired by the service information acquisition unit as the service information of the vehicle service.