Characters are easily input using a direction indicating device. The device provides a direction indicating device which outputs a rotated direction of lowering, or the direction inclination and its strength, a display device, a key input means, a memory that stores a plurality of character sets, and a control means which selects characters a character set and characters comprising this character set which are stored in memory according to the output of the direction indicating device, and displays them on the display device, and which accepts the output of the direction indicating device as circumferential position information, and selects a specified character from a chart of characters that associates the previously provided position information with the output of the direction indicating device.