To provide a navigation device capable of easily retrieving a location on the basis of information distributed in a broadcasting form.

When a screen holding switch 32 is pressed down, an image storage part 34 acquires image information at the time from a TV broadcasting receiver 40 and stores the image information as a still image. The stored image information is displayed on a display device 18. When a region including character information such as addresses, telephone numbers, etc., is specified from among the displayed image information through an operating part 12, a character recognition processing part 36 performs predetermined character recognition processing on the image information included in the specified region to extract a character string corresponding to the addresses, etc. A location retrieving part 52 retrieves a specific location on a map on the basis of the character string extracted by the character recognition processing part 36.