Provided is a vehicle peripheral image generation device for generating a vehicle peripheral image which can offer a wide view of the surroundings of the vehicle at the same time. The vehicle peripheral image generation device is provided with an image acquisition unit which acquires vehicle peripheral images photographed by a plurality of photography cameras provided on the vehicle, a display device which is provided in the vehicle interior for displaying the images, a viewing point position setting unit which sets the position of the viewing point of the image displayed on the display device to the viewing point from the vertical upward direction, a fish-eye image generation unit which generates a fish-eye image from the view point located at the position set by the viewing point position setting unit using the peripheral images, a self-vehicle image generation unit which generates a self-vehicle image indicating the self-vehicle, and a display image generation unit which generates an image displayed on the display device using the fish-eye image and the self-vehicle image, wherein the viewing point position of the fish-eye image can be changed.