VEHICLE NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

A vehicle navigation apparatus for searching for a route from an inputted place of departure to an inputted destination and performing guidance, the apparatus including a controller that registers a traveled route by associating a traveled route with a place of departure and a destination and judges whether the inputted place of departure and the inputted destination are the same as a respective place of departure and destination of a registered route. If it is judged that a registered route has the same place of departure and same place of destination as the respective inputted place of departure and inputted destination, the controller searches for a route by reading out information of that registered route and lowering a search weight for the route, and performs guidance based on the route found by the search.