There is provided an information accumulation apparatus that accumulates contents and has a power-on state and a standby state as a power state, which includes an information collection portion to collect information including content information related to a content and internal information related to the information accumulation apparatus during the power-on state, an information acquisition portion to acquire the information collected by the information collection portion during transition from the power-on state to the standby state, and a display portion to sequentially display the information acquired by the information acquisition portion during the standby state.