Vehicle navigation apparatus and method

A navigation apparatus for a vehicle comprising a registration means for registering a place of departure, a destination, a route traveled by the vehicle, a time of day that the route was traveled, and/or a day of the week that the route was traveled; a determination means for determining whether an input place of departure and input destination are respectively substantially the same as a place of departure and destination of a registered route; a route search means for reading out a particular registered route from registered route information, the particular registered route having substantially the same place of departure and destination as the respective input place of departure and input destination, a registered day of the week that is the same as a day of the week for which route guidance between the input place of departure and input destination is requested, and/or a registered time of day that is nearest to a time of day for which route guidance between the input place of departure and input destination is requested; and a control means for performing route guidance based on a route returned by the search means.