A positioning system and a positioning method which suppress the occurrence of jitter to improve positioning accuracy. A base station (100) of a positioning system (10) which comprises the base station (100) and a radio terminal (200), and measures the position of the radio terminal (200) to be positioned using a pulse signal, wherein a pulse generating block (103) transmits a pulse signal sequence, and an ID positioning block (110) calculates the time required for reciprocation between the transmission timing of the pulse signal sequence and the reception timing of a response pulse signal sequence transmitted from the radio terminal (200) which has received the pulse signal sequence, and calculates the position of the radio terminal (200) on the basis of the time required for reciprocation. Then, in the radio terminal (200) an LNA (203) amplifies the received pulse signal sequence and transmits the amplified pulse signal sequence to the base station (100) as a response pulse signal.