To provide a display device for a vehicle mounted on an automobile such as a measuring instrument, which improves the perceptibity of traveling direction information.

The display device for the vehicle is provided with a display plate 2 for displaying vehicle information, an ornamental display part 4 which is arranged around the display plate 2 and emits light by the supply of illumination light from a light source 7, and a control means 10 for controlling the light source 7. The control means 10 is capable of improving the perceptibity of the traveling direction information by blinking the light source 7 based on the traveling direction information of the vehicle.