PURPOSE: To provide an operation device for elevator which serves passengers to transport them to a floor which is a little apart from a designated floor by automatically-registering calling of an elevator cage to the nearest floor where the cage can stop to a floor whose door cannot be opened if it is detected that the door cannot be opened and a passenger cannot get off it.

CONSTITUTION: If a door opening failure judgment means 3 judges that a door cannot be opened, and a getting-off detection means 4 cannot detect that a passenger gets off, calling of an elevator cage to the nearest floor where the cage can stop to a floor whose door cannot be opened is registered automatically by a cage call automatic registering means 9.