Navigation system and method for vehicles

摘要

A navigation system for vehicles which extracts a target facility by conducting a search using fuzzy search words inputted by a user. A facility search section 13 includes a fuzziness interpretation section 131 for converting any fuzzy search word included in the inputted character string into a defined condition (quantified criterion) and retrieves target facility using facility information of the facility to be searched on the basis of the defined condition.