To provide a visually handicapped person supporting system which enables even a visually handicapped person to move an article desired by the visually handicapped person himself/herself to his/her own desired place without the aid of a helper and to acquire the article by the visually handicapped person himself/herself moving without the aid of the helper, and a visually handicapped person supporting method.

The visually handicapped person supporting system comprises an induction device to be mounted on the visually handicapped person and a controller unit for controlling the induction of the visually handicapped person and is characterized in that the induction device transmits a space identification signal for the visually handicapped person to recognize the desired target space information and an initial space, and the controller unit has a path calculation means for receiving the space identification signal and the target space signal and calculates the path information, and a control signal transmission means for transmitting the path information calculated in the path calculation means to the induction device.