PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

To provide a parking assistance apparatus capable of achieving easier leaving parking space. A parking assistance apparatus includes a detection section detecting a first parking space in which a vehicle can be parked, and a control section forward parking the vehicle in the first parking space. When a second parking space in which the vehicle can be parked in front of the vehicle entering the first parking space, the control section causes the vehicle that has been already under control to be forward parked in the first parking space to enter the second parking space from the first parking space and to be parked in the second parking space.