A vehicle surroundings monitoring system includes: an image pick-up device (10) that picks up an image of an area on the passenger side of a vehicle (200); a display device (30) that displays the image of the area on the passenger side of the vehicle, which is picked up by the image pick-up device; a foot illuminating device (40) that illuminates the ground outside the vehicle on the passenger side, and a foot illumination controller (50) that controls the foot illuminating device, wherein when the image of the area on the passenger side of the vehicle, which is picked up by the image pick-up device, is being displayed on the display device, the foot illumination controller turns off the foot illuminating device.