1. A vehicle periphery viewing apparatus for capturing a vehicle-peripheral image, comprising: an image capturing device disposed on predetermined position; a display device disposed within the vehicle; and an image processing device performing an image division of the original image into a first image and a second image, wherein the image capturing device captures an original image from the predetermined position, wherein the display device displays the captured vehicle-peripheral image, wherein the image processing device performs a coordinate conversion into a plan view coordinate by using a geometrical correction for the first image, wherein the image processing device performs a predetermined image synthesis for the first image and the second image, wherein the image processing device displays a synthesized image on the display device, wherein the first image is a short distance image and the second image is a long distance image, wherein the predetermined image synthesis is to arrange the short distance and long distance images one above the other at a point of view from which an object is obliquely seen downward, and wherein the image processing device is operable to switch between a first mode for making a scale range at the boundary between the short distance image and the long distance image equal and a second mode for enlarging the short distance image.