A vehicle operation apparatus is provided for performing an operation on a screen page displayed on a display device using a touch panel. The vehicle operation apparatus includes an operation determination part configured to determine whether a cursor operation of moving a cursor in the screen page by touching the touch panel by an operation finger and sliding the operation finger on the touch panel or a flick operation of scrolling an operation target in the screen page by touching and flicking the touch panel by the operation finger is performed. The operation determination part is configured to change a threshold for determining the performed operation as the flick operation depending on a position of the cursor.