A mobile information terminal with improved operability, having a display part and a control part. The display part has a first display region and a second display region. In the first display region, information for specifying a function is displayed. In the second display region, information on conditions of a function executed by a function execution section is displayed. The control part displays the function specifying information in a standby state where the display of the execution information in the second display region of the display part is suppressed and also displays standby information, different from the execution information, in the second display region. In the standby state, when function specifying information is selected in response to the operation detected by an operation detection part, the control part displays execution information of the function specified by the function specifying information selected while the display of the function specifying information on the first display region is maintained.