An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit for picking up an image of a subject and generating a plurality of pickup images, an orientation obtaining unit for setting an image pickup position at a time of picking up one pickup image among the plurality of generated pickup images as a reference and obtaining an orientation related to the pickup image, an image combining unit for combining the plurality of generated pickup images and generating a panoramic image, a representative position calculation unit for calculating a representative position in a horizontal direction in the generated panoramic image, an orientation calculation unit for calculating an orientation at the calculated representative position on the basis of characteristic information of the image pickup unit, the calculated representative position, and the obtained orientation, and a recording control unit for recording the calculated orientation while being associated with the generated panoramic image.