Base station, terminal apparatus, and initial connection method

In order to shorten the time in which an initial connection is established when switching directivity and then performing the initial connection, a frame timing control unit sets, until detection of an RACH signal, a transmission timing of a transmission frame for transmitting a search signal and a broadcast signal and also sets a reception-start timing for starting the reception of the corresponding RACH signal. A search/broadcast signal generation unit generates the broadcast signal and the search signal including reception-timing information. A beam directivity control unit sets, for a predetermined time starting from the reception-start timing, a directivity pattern such that the directivity is in the same direction as the directivity pattern for the corresponding transmission-timing information, whereby the beam directivity control unit controls a beam directivity operation unit.