To provide a facility name retrieving method and device for retrieving and presenting a correct facility name even when a vague facility name stored by a user is input as it is.

When the text of a facility name stored by a user is input to a text for retrieval input part 21, a clause recognition processing part 23 recognizes the clause of the text by using a dictionary 22 for clause recognition, and a clause decomposing part 24 decomposes the clause of the text for each clause, and a decomposed clause combination text forming part 25 forms a plurality of combined texts constituted of the combination of all the decomposed clauses. A retrieval executing part 28 retrieves the plurality of combined texts constituted of all the combination, and outputs the retrieval result. After retrieval based on the text of a facility name stored by a user is operated at first, when the result is not his or her intended facility, the above retrieval may be executed. As the dictionary for retrieval to be used for performing facility retrieval, a dictionary 32 for retrieval of an information center 30 may be used by performing its communication with the information center 30.