Mount Hachimantai to Shimokita Hanto Quasi-National Park Hiking Route

On May 5, 2026 at around 01:20, a bear about 1.5 meters long was sighted near a field in the Hakkō area of Kuroishi City. At around 04:20, another bear of unknown size was sighted near a different field in the same area a few hundred meters away.

Kuroishi 八甲, Aomori

Rice paddy / Body length 1 m / 200 m from a residence / 50 m from sighting Vehicle was driving on the road when a bear was discovered in the rice paddy. The bear moved west toward the direction of a waste processing facility.

Kosaka Araya, Akita

National road / body length 70 cm / 60 m from a house / approximately 50 m from the witness While driving a vehicle on the national road toward Semboku City, I saw one small bear cross the road and run toward the village.

Kazuno, Akita

[Post] Witnessed crossing the Jukai Line from south to north

Kosaka, Akita

[Post] Spotted a bear cub alone on the highway

Kosaka, Akita

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Kazuno 長牛, Akita

Field / Body length 1.2 m / 700 m from a residence / Approximately 50 m from the witness

Kazuno, Akita

Beside the national highway in brush/Body length ~1 m/40 m from a residence/About 5 m from the witness While passing on the national highway by vehicle, I saw a bear sitting at the edge of the mountain beside the road. Because I drove past it, I do not know which direction it left. Afterwards the police checked the area but did not find the bear.

Kazuno Osarizawa, Akita

Report: Near Ōbadani-chi (about 5.5 km from Tamagawa Onsen No.1 parking lot toward Kazuno, on the mountain side) a bear on a snowy slope noticed a car, panicked, and ran uphill toward Tamagawa Onsen to escape.

Kazuno, Akita

At around 17:40 on April 19, 2026, in Tsurugasaka, Aomori City, a single bear about 1.5 meters long crossed the road from north to south and came into contact with a car. The city is urging people to report sightings or tracks and to avoid leaving garbage outdoors.

Aomori Tsurugasaka, Aomori

Crossed the road and climbed up the steep embankment on the right.

Kazuno 下長根, Akita

[Report] One bear about 1 meter tall near the side just before the bridge along Route 7.

Odate Nagabashiri, Akita

While driving on the highway (northbound), a vehicle observed a single bear approximately 50 centimeters in body length occupying the roadway. When a responding police vehicle arrived and sounded its siren, the bear moved off the road through a gap in the highway fence and was confirmed to have departed toward the forested area to the northeast.

Kazuno, Akita

At around 09:30 on the 15th, a single bear about 50 cm in length was seen sitting on the northbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway in Hachimantai-Shimokuzureoka, Kazuno City. When police arrived and sounded their sirens, the bear left the road through a gap in the fence and entered the forested hills to the northeast.

Kazuno, Akita

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Kosaka, Akita

Public facility plaza / body length 1.2 m / 20 m from houses, etc. The bear was seen from inside the facility moving north through the plaza, crossing the national highway and heading north. Distance to the witness approximately 100 m.

Kazuno 横道, Akita

Municipal road / body length 1.2 m / 20 m to a house / about 100 m from the witness. It was walking along the rice-field path under the highway toward the houses. The black thing in the center of the attached photo is the bear.

Kazuno 土ヶ久保, Akita

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Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita

While driving, a bear about 60 centimeters long was seen crossing the city road from west to east and then leaving toward the forest on the east side. The distance to the car was about 3 meters.

Kazuno 上苗代, Akita