1. A scenery imaging apparatus comprising: a dividing unit that divides, into a plurality of cells, a scenery image captured in an arbitrary direction, as an initial scenery image, by an image capturing unit; a calculating unit that calculates respective distances to portions of initial scenery respectively corresponding to the cells; a determining unit that determines an image capturing direction based on the distances calculated by the calculating unit; and a judging unit that judges, based on the distances calculated by the calculating unit, whether a portion of the initial scenery from the portions of initial scenery corresponding to a cell from the plurality of cells is a distant view, wherein the determining unit determines the image capturing direction based on the portion of the initial scenery from the portions of initial scenery judged to be the distant view.