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This 55 km route runs from Daisen to Semboku within Akita. In the past 30 days, 101 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them. The latest sighting was reported 2 days ago near Senboku, Akita.
This is an active bear corridor. Drive through with full caution, but rerouting is the safer choice.
回顧の滝から第二駐車場へ戻る途中、駐車場の近く。
Senboku, Akita
(Post) Crossed the road and went into the stream.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
In the rice field, about 1 m in body length, moving away toward the south (where houses are located). Approximately 20 m from the nearest home.
Senboku Tazawako-Obonai, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Tazawako Obonai-machi Tada, Senboku City, around 8:45 a.m.
Senboku, Akita
On the residential property; body length approximately 0.8 m; direction of departure: north; distance to the house: approximately 3 m.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Kakunodate-machi Shimonobe Kikketanda, Semboku City.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
It crossed from Ōse Kurano Bridge heading toward the mountains.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
A single bear about 1 m tall was sighted. Direction it fled is unknown. Distance to residential house: 10 m.
Daisen Kami-Uguisuno, Akita
A bear about 1 m in size was sighted near Nakasen Community Center Uginono Branch. Direction it ran is unknown. Distance to the nearest house: 30 m.
Daisen Shimo-Uguisuno, Akita
A bear was sighted in Shimoogino Kamimura, Daisen City, Akita, around 6:00 AM on June 10.
Daisen Shimo-Uguisuno, Akita
One bear about 1 meter long. Approximately 5 meters from a residence. Direction of departure unknown.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
One bear approximately 0.6 m in body length. About 50 m from a residence. Direction of departure unknown.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Sonoda, Akita
[Report] Moved along a farm road and into the woods
Senboku Tazawako-Komatsu, Akita
One bear about 1 m in body length was sighted. Direction it left is unknown. Approximately 5 m from a nearby house.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Ogata, Akita
A bear about 1 m in body length was sighted and moved off to the south. It was about 50 m from a nearby building.
Senboku, Akita
A bear was sighted in Tazawako-Umezawaofu, Senboku City, Akita Prefecture, around 8:30 AM on June 5, and it was seen moving.
Senboku Tazawako-Umezawa, Akita
One bear approximately 1.5 m in body length. It departed toward the northern mountain area. Distance: 10 m.
Senboku Tazawako-Umezawa, Akita
On the evening of 2026-06-05, a bear was sighted moving in Tazawako Sotsuda Shibakura, Senboku City, Akita Prefecture.
Senboku, Akita
A single bear about 1 meter long was sighted and walked off to the east. It was approximately 20 meters from nearby houses.
Senboku Tazawako-Okazaki, Akita
Posted: Found along the riverbank; whereabouts since then unknown.
Senboku Nishikicho-Kobuchino, Akita
Spotted a bear about 1 m in size in the riverside brush on the right bank of the Kawaguchi River. It moved eastward along the river.
Daisen Itaminai, Akita
[Report] A 1.2 m long bear left the embankment tail at the Ushirokawa drainage sluice and departed toward the Omono River.
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
Posted: It was located between the forest and the embankment.
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
A young bear about 30 centimeters long went from the river toward the grounds of Omagari Agricultural High School.
Daisen Onukitakabatake, Akita
Witnessed a cub about 70 cm long in a rice paddy. Drove it toward the river using a kei truck’s horn. Distance to the nearest house: 100 m.
Daisen Kitanagano, Akita
Sighted in a rice field.
Daisen Otacho-Kunimi, Akita
Witnessed a bear moving eastward through the rice field west of Maruho Construction. Body length approximately 1.5 m.
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
On the evening of 2026-06-03, one bear was sighted on a city road in Omagari Kanaya-cho, Daisen City.
Daisen Iida, Akita
A bear was sighted in Ota-machi Kunimizakuraushi, Daisen City, Akita Prefecture.
Daisen Otacho-Kunimi, Akita
Walked on the residential property and entered toward the mountain. Body length approximately 1.3 m. Departed heading east toward the mountain. Distance to nearest house approximately 3 m.
Senboku Tazawako-Okazaki, Akita
[Report] One bear approximately 1.2 m long sighted. Distance to the nearest house: 10 m. Direction of departure: unknown.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
Sighted in the river channel, body length approximately 0.8 m, direction when leaving unknown, approximately 200 m from a residence
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kumoshikari, Akita
One approximately 1-meter-tall bear was sighted. It ran east and entered the brush. Distance to the nearest residence: 100 meters.
Daisen Toyokawa, Akita
Spotted a bear while driving. It appeared to be trying to enter a building. Size and direction of travel unknown.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
Crossed the road from the IC side
Daisen Uchiotomo, Akita
A mother and cub bear crossed the road from west to east. Their body lengths were about 1 m and about 0.3 m, respectively. They departed heading east. The nearest building is approximately 500 m away.
Senboku, Akita
A mother and cub crossed the road from west to east. Their body lengths were about 1 m and about 0.3 m, respectively. They left heading east. They were approximately 500 m from nearby buildings.
Senboku, Akita
A bear about 1 m in size was sighted near the Murasho plant. It ran off to the south. Distance to the building: 20 m.
Daisen 新下川原, Akita
Witnessed a bear about 1 m tall running south along the prefectural road. Distance to the house: 10 m.
Daisen Nagano, Akita
[Report] Spotted a bear about 1.2 m tall. It left heading south along the riverbank.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
While driving, I saw one cub about 50 cm long. It headed toward Kakunodate along the national highway. Distance from houses: 50 m.
Daisen Kitanagano, Akita
At around 10:35 on May 30, a bear was seen moving in Kakunodatemachi Iwaseshitano, Senboku City, Akita.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
[Report] A friend contacted me saying there appeared to be a bear on the riverbank behind my house. I looked from a second-floor window and saw a bear walking along the bank from downstream toward the iron bridge. When I shouted loudly, it hurriedly went down the embankment toward the river, and its whereabouts after that are unknown. There happened to be an angler under the iron bridge about 100 meters away; the police arrived, issued a warning, and the angler left. It was a large bear for an adult. It was within 10 meters of a house.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
Walked within the property toward the river; body length approximately 1 m; direction of departure west (toward Hinokinai River); distance to the nearest house about 1 m.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
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Daisen Nagano, Akita
I was standing in the river fishing and, as I was about to get out, I stopped to look at my phone for a moment when something moving caught the corner of my eye — a bear! It was about 1 meter in size. Before I noticed it, the bear was in the river about 20 meters away. When our eyes met, the bear seemed startled and raced out of the river, fleeing into the bushes. After that, the bear appeared to be panicked and was running back and forth on Nagano Bridge (when I told a local I met at the Nakasen roadside station about the bear, they said they had just seen a panicked bear on the bridge).
Daisen Nagano, Akita
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Daisen Kitanagano, Akita
[Report] From the area near Kawahara Hall, the bear crossed the rice fields from around the Wabisakura signboard, headed toward the fields, and is wandering near houses.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kawara, Akita
I didn't see the bear itself, but there were bear tracks on the rice paddy embankment and in the field next to my house. From the direction of the tracks, it likely moved from west (Tamagawa direction) to east (toward AEON Nakasen store).
Daisen Kitanagano, Akita
Around 7:40 on May 30, a bear was sighted in Nagano, Daisen City.
Daisen 新下川原, Akita
A bear crossed the road. Body length unknown. It departed heading east. Approximately 30 meters from nearby houses.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Sonoda, Akita
[Post] Under the bridge
Daisen Nagano, Akita
Around 7:35 on May 29, a bear was sighted in Futsuyu Nakaodo, Daisen City, Akita Prefecture.
Daisen Niiyaji, Akita
Spotted a bear about 1.5 m in body length.
Daisen Yotsuya, Akita
A bear about 1 meter long ran east through the rice fields.
Daisen Niiyaji, Akita
Around 6:01 on 2026-05-29, a bear was sighted at Shingayachi Mizunomiba in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture.
Daisen Niiyaji, Akita
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Daisen Niiyaji, Akita
[Post] Walking along the embankment
Daisen Nagatoro, Akita
While doing farm work, I sighted a single bear about 1 meter tall in a rice field. It was approximately 100 meters from a residence.
Daisen Yotsuya, Akita
A bear was seen moving around at Kitanagano Nakagawara, Daisen City, around 7:30 a.m. on 2026-05-28.
Daisen Nagano, Akita
One bear about 1 m in size was seen coming out of the Tamagawa riverbed and entering a nearby thicket. Distance to the nearest house: 200 m.
Daisen Nagano, Akita
A bear about 60–70 cm was seen walking near a house. It was observed walking toward the west (river). Afterwards it was reported to have climbed up the levee. Distance to the residence: 20 m.
Daisen Shimo-Uguisuno, Akita
A bear was sighted in Furukawabata, Shimogungo, Daisen City, and was seen moving.
Daisen Shimo-Uguisuno, Akita
Observed one bear approximately 1 meter in length. Direction it left is unknown. About 10 meters from a nearby residence.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
Witnessed moving from along the railway toward the national highway. Size unknown. Distance from residences: 200 m.
Daisen 新下川原, Akita
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Daisen Kitanagano, Akita
On 2026-05-26 afternoon, one bear was seen moving in Naganoarai, Daisen City, Akita.
Daisen 新下川原, Akita
Posted: Three bears (a parent and two cubs) were on the road; when a car approached they escaped into the bushes.
Daisen Uchiotomo, Akita
One bear approximately 1 m in body length was sighted and left heading north. Distance to the residence was about 10 m.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
Around 16:20 on 2026-05-25, one bear crossing a prefectural road was sighted by a woman in her 70s in Mizunomezawa, Kakunodatemachi, Senboku, Akita.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
At around 8:30 on May 25, a bear was seen moving in Ueno, Kakunodate-machi, Senboku City, Akita Prefecture.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
(Posted) It ran along the side of the building toward the back.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
Body length approximately 50 cm, direction of departure unknown, distance to the building approximately 10 m
Senboku, Akita
[Report] One bear sighted; body length unknown
Senboku Tazawako-Kata, Akita
[Post] One bear of unknown body length sighted
Senboku Tazawako-Kata, Akita
Around 06:50 on 2026-05-25, a bear was sighted in Tazawako Kataichinowatari, Semboku City, Akita Prefecture.
Senboku Tazawako-Kata, Akita
An approximately 50 cm-long animal was rummaging through the garbage at the trash collection point. Direction of departure unknown. Approximately 3 m from a residence.
Senboku Tazawako-Kata, Akita
[Post] A bear cub was running through the rice field. Diagonally across from the fire station.
Senboku Tazawako-Obonai, Akita
[Post] This morning, when I went to the field, there were footprints.
Daisen Hanadate, Akita
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Senboku Tazawako-Tazawa, Akita
A bear was sighted in Kakunodate-machi Yamatani Kawasaki Ueno, Senboku City, Akita, around 18:50 on May 23.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kawara, Akita
[Post] Spotted while farming
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kawara, Akita
While driving, a bear emerged from the brush and ran off toward the Tamagawa area.
Daisen Yariminai, Akita
A single bear about 60 cm crossed the prefectural road and ran off to the west. Distance to the nearest house: 50 m.
Daisen Toyooka, Akita
A bear was loitering in front of a house entrance. Body length approximately 1.5 m. Direction of departure unknown. Distance to the house about 1 m.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kawara, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Kakunodatemachi Kawaranakakawara, Senboku City, around 6:00 AM on 2026-05-21.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Kawara, Akita
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Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
[Post] There is one adult bear in the forest
Senboku Kakunodatemachi, Akita
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Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
Around 6:50 on 2026-05-20, a bear was sighted in Shimonobaru Kakekakida, Kakunodatemachi, Senboku City, Akita Prefecture.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
A bear was in a farm field. Body length unknown. It departed toward the southeast. It was about 100 meters from nearby buildings.
Senboku, Akita
It was wandering near a prefectural road. Body length approximately 1 m, direction of departure unknown, distance to buildings 10 m.
Senboku Kakunodatemachi-Shimonobu, Akita
[Report] One cub-like bear sighted on the riverbank embankment. Several police cars are on the scene.
Daisen Otacho-Komaba, Akita
[Post] Walking inside the park
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
Daisen Takazekikamigo, Akita
A single bear about 1 meter in body length crossed Route 105 from east to west.
Daisen Takazekikamigo, Akita
Spotted one bear approximately 80 cm in body length in farmland.
Daisen Hanadate, Akita
One bear spotted walking on farmland. Body length about 1 m. Distance to the nearest house about 30 m.
Daisen Hanadate, Akita
I spotted a small bear about 50 cm long in the bushes, but it soon disappeared from the area. The direction it went is unknown.
Daisen Yotsuya, Akita
Footprints believed to be from a bear were found in the field.
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
Discovered what appears to be bear tracks in the field.
Daisen Jinguji, Akita
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In the past 30 days, 101 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them.
The latest sighting was reported 2 days ago near Senboku, Akita.
Recent sightings on this route peak around 6:00. Bears are generally most active at dawn and dusk.
This 55 km route runs from Daisen to Semboku within Akita. In the past 30 days, 101 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them. The latest sighting was reported 2 days ago near Senboku, Akita. This is an active bear corridor. Drive through with full caution, but rerouting is the safer choice.
