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This 196 km route runs from Kosaka to Nishimeya, passing through Akita and Aomori. In the past 30 days, 58 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them. The latest sighting was reported 1 day ago near Hirosaki, Aomori.
This is an active bear corridor. Drive through with full caution, but rerouting is the safer choice.
It was a brown bear (reported by the City Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
Within the cemetery park, a brown bear cub (tsukinowaguma) about the size of a small bear near the Tennyo statue headed southeast. (Reported by the City Agricultural and Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
(No information)
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear was sighted near a private residence in Ikadakariyakitsu, Hirakawa City.
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear sighted near a private residence (reported by Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(Report) Emerged from bamboo grass on the east side of the town road. Noticing a car, it fled back into the bamboo grass.
Kosaka, Akita
Apple crop damage, tree trunk damage, feces confirmed (reported from Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(From Ōwani Town) There was a sighting that a bear had climbed a cherry tree near Yamaguchi Oil, then climbed down, crossed the embankment and fled upstream.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
At around 7:00 a.m. on August 4, one bear was seen climbing a cherry tree in Nijigai, Owani Town.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
[Report] While traveling on the Jukai Line from Towada Lake toward Kosaka city, encountered a bear about 80 cm long on the road at the junction with the Sunagosawa Line. When I braked to stop, the bear slowly entered the brush.
Kosaka, Akita
While doing farm work, I witnessed one bear with brown fur and a body length greater than 1 m in a nearby apple orchard. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post] One bear cub in the rice-husks
Kosaka Daichi, Akita
A bear was sighted in Otarube, Kosakamoyama, Kosaka Town.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
[Post]
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
While driving, (the bear) crossed the road in front of me from the south to the north and left.
Hirakawa Tateyama, Aomori
Witnessed a dark brown bear about 1 meter in body length while working in the fields. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was seen moving in Ozawa Maesawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
It ran off in the direction of Hirakawa.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
While working on the farm, I saw one juvenile bear about 50 cm long sitting on the bank of the Dobuchi River. It ran off to the east.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was sighted moving in Ozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Around 3:15 p.m. on July 28, one bear was spotted moving in Kuradate Kawarada, Owani Town.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
[Post] A cub was at the roadside
Kosaka, Akita
A bear was sighted in Kosaka-Kōzan Sugisawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture, around 3:35 PM on July 27.
Kosaka, Akita
[Report] Following last week, three bears (a mother and two cubs) were sighted.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
[Report] A single bear about 1.2 meters long was at the roadside of the town road on the west side of the rice fields and entered the forest west of the town road. In this area, encounters and sightings have been occurring in succession: an encounter in a paddy field on May 24, a sighting of one bear on May 31, a sighting of one bear on June 30, and a sighting of two bears—believed to be a parent and offspring—on July 1. It appears to use routes that include the south side of the Sunagosawa settlement and crossing the Sunagosawa River.
Kosaka, Akita
Around 4:10 PM on July 25, a bear was seen moving in Kosaka Sanezawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
Posted: A postal worker witnessed it while making deliveries.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
Was eating a watermelon.
Owani Hachimandate, Aomori
[Report] On the town road there was one young bear about 40 centimeters in body length. When it noticed the car, it looked at us once, then changed direction and went into the bushes of Yunotani-chi toward the Sunagosawa River, where it appears to have come from. No adult bear was seen. The cub was about the size expected for one born this year and jet black and clean, looking almost like a stuffed animal. The thought that the mother might be nearby was frightening.
Kosaka, Akita
(From Ōwani town report) There was a report that it ran off toward the river.
Owani Komaki, Aomori
A branch of the apple tree had been broken. In addition to several claw marks on the tree, footprints and droppings were found nearby. [Issued by Hirakawa City]
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
(From Ōwani town post) Ran across and fled through the area near Ameike Community Center (ski resort slope).
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
Around 10:00 on 2026-07-23, traces suggesting a bear appearance were found in Ikariseki Hisayoshi Shitaichitsu, Hirakawa City, Aomori, and apples were damaged.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
Crossed from the southbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway to the northbound lanes.
Kosaka, Akita
On 2026-07-21 around 16:45, a bear was sighted moving in Kosaka Kogyo, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
One bear (just under 1 m in body length) was observed walking from the road in front of Ōwani Town School Lunch Center toward the mountain behind the lunch center.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
I didn’t actually see the bear, but when I went to check during the peach harvest period I found damage from feeding, and discovered a small amount of droppings that appear to be from a bear.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Ran off toward the mountain to the north.
Hirakawa, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Ikarigaseki Funaoka, Hirakawa City, Aomori, around 4 PM on July 17.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
It poked its head out of the bushes on the left side facing the Kosaka direction, but it immediately withdrew when startled by the car.
Odate, Akita
A single bear about 80 cm in body length crossed the farm road and headed west.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A neighbor spotted one bear (body length approximately 1.0 m) / direction of travel: east / about 10 m from the nearest house
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted in Nagahayashi Jinba, Odate City, around 08:07 on July 15.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A driver who visited JR Jinba Station sighted one bear (approximately 1.0 m in body length) near the tracks / direction of travel: east / about 20 m from the above station
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
It crossed the tracks in front of the platform and walked toward the mountains.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Yakushido Minami Kumazawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori on July 15 around 12:30.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Sighted a bear about 1 m in length crossing the Dobuchi River heading toward the cemetery park (east).
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post]
Kosaka Araya, Akita
Around 14:35 on July 14, a bear was sighted in Kozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, and was seen moving.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Nagahashiri Jamba, Ōdate City.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
Report: A single bear about 80 centimeters long was in the rice-field ridge at 1 Murashita, Kosaka, Kosaka Town. It was walking westward, eating grass along the ridge and beside irrigation channels, then climbed the west-side slope vegetation, crossed the town road, and entered the western woodland. When it spotted a light truck on the town road, it turned back into the vegetation and crossed the road at a distance to avoid it.
Kosaka, Akita
It was crossing the prefectural road from west to east.
Kosaka, Akita
It was a brown bear (reported by the City Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
Within the cemetery park, a brown bear cub (tsukinowaguma) about the size of a small bear near the Tennyo statue headed southeast. (Reported by the City Agricultural and Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
(No information)
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear was sighted near a private residence in Ikadakariyakitsu, Hirakawa City.
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear sighted near a private residence (reported by Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(Report) Emerged from bamboo grass on the east side of the town road. Noticing a car, it fled back into the bamboo grass.
Kosaka, Akita
Apple crop damage, tree trunk damage, feces confirmed (reported from Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(From Ōwani Town) There was a sighting that a bear had climbed a cherry tree near Yamaguchi Oil, then climbed down, crossed the embankment and fled upstream.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
At around 7:00 a.m. on August 4, one bear was seen climbing a cherry tree in Nijigai, Owani Town.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
[Report] While traveling on the Jukai Line from Towada Lake toward Kosaka city, encountered a bear about 80 cm long on the road at the junction with the Sunagosawa Line. When I braked to stop, the bear slowly entered the brush.
Kosaka, Akita
While doing farm work, I witnessed one bear with brown fur and a body length greater than 1 m in a nearby apple orchard. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post] One bear cub in the rice-husks
Kosaka Daichi, Akita
A bear was sighted in Otarube, Kosakamoyama, Kosaka Town.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
[Post]
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
While driving, (the bear) crossed the road in front of me from the south to the north and left.
Hirakawa Tateyama, Aomori
Witnessed a dark brown bear about 1 meter in body length while working in the fields. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was seen moving in Ozawa Maesawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
It ran off in the direction of Hirakawa.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
While working on the farm, I saw one juvenile bear about 50 cm long sitting on the bank of the Dobuchi River. It ran off to the east.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was sighted moving in Ozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Around 3:15 p.m. on July 28, one bear was spotted moving in Kuradate Kawarada, Owani Town.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
[Post] A cub was at the roadside
Kosaka, Akita
A bear was sighted in Kosaka-Kōzan Sugisawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture, around 3:35 PM on July 27.
Kosaka, Akita
[Report] Following last week, three bears (a mother and two cubs) were sighted.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
[Report] A single bear about 1.2 meters long was at the roadside of the town road on the west side of the rice fields and entered the forest west of the town road. In this area, encounters and sightings have been occurring in succession: an encounter in a paddy field on May 24, a sighting of one bear on May 31, a sighting of one bear on June 30, and a sighting of two bears—believed to be a parent and offspring—on July 1. It appears to use routes that include the south side of the Sunagosawa settlement and crossing the Sunagosawa River.
Kosaka, Akita
Around 4:10 PM on July 25, a bear was seen moving in Kosaka Sanezawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
Posted: A postal worker witnessed it while making deliveries.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
Was eating a watermelon.
Owani Hachimandate, Aomori
[Report] On the town road there was one young bear about 40 centimeters in body length. When it noticed the car, it looked at us once, then changed direction and went into the bushes of Yunotani-chi toward the Sunagosawa River, where it appears to have come from. No adult bear was seen. The cub was about the size expected for one born this year and jet black and clean, looking almost like a stuffed animal. The thought that the mother might be nearby was frightening.
Kosaka, Akita
(From Ōwani town report) There was a report that it ran off toward the river.
Owani Komaki, Aomori
A branch of the apple tree had been broken. In addition to several claw marks on the tree, footprints and droppings were found nearby. [Issued by Hirakawa City]
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
(From Ōwani town post) Ran across and fled through the area near Ameike Community Center (ski resort slope).
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
Around 10:00 on 2026-07-23, traces suggesting a bear appearance were found in Ikariseki Hisayoshi Shitaichitsu, Hirakawa City, Aomori, and apples were damaged.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
Crossed from the southbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway to the northbound lanes.
Kosaka, Akita
On 2026-07-21 around 16:45, a bear was sighted moving in Kosaka Kogyo, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
One bear (just under 1 m in body length) was observed walking from the road in front of Ōwani Town School Lunch Center toward the mountain behind the lunch center.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
I didn’t actually see the bear, but when I went to check during the peach harvest period I found damage from feeding, and discovered a small amount of droppings that appear to be from a bear.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Ran off toward the mountain to the north.
Hirakawa, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Ikarigaseki Funaoka, Hirakawa City, Aomori, around 4 PM on July 17.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
It poked its head out of the bushes on the left side facing the Kosaka direction, but it immediately withdrew when startled by the car.
Odate, Akita
A single bear about 80 cm in body length crossed the farm road and headed west.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A neighbor spotted one bear (body length approximately 1.0 m) / direction of travel: east / about 10 m from the nearest house
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted in Nagahayashi Jinba, Odate City, around 08:07 on July 15.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A driver who visited JR Jinba Station sighted one bear (approximately 1.0 m in body length) near the tracks / direction of travel: east / about 20 m from the above station
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
It crossed the tracks in front of the platform and walked toward the mountains.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Yakushido Minami Kumazawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori on July 15 around 12:30.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Sighted a bear about 1 m in length crossing the Dobuchi River heading toward the cemetery park (east).
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post]
Kosaka Araya, Akita
Around 14:35 on July 14, a bear was sighted in Kozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, and was seen moving.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Nagahashiri Jamba, Ōdate City.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
Report: A single bear about 80 centimeters long was in the rice-field ridge at 1 Murashita, Kosaka, Kosaka Town. It was walking westward, eating grass along the ridge and beside irrigation channels, then climbed the west-side slope vegetation, crossed the town road, and entered the western woodland. When it spotted a light truck on the town road, it turned back into the vegetation and crossed the road at a distance to avoid it.
Kosaka, Akita
It was crossing the prefectural road from west to east.
Kosaka, Akita
It was a brown bear (reported by the City Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
Within the cemetery park, a brown bear cub (tsukinowaguma) about the size of a small bear near the Tennyo statue headed southeast. (Reported by the City Agricultural and Rural Development Division)
Hirosaki, Aomori
(No information)
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear was sighted near a private residence in Ikadakariyakitsu, Hirakawa City.
Hirakawa, Aomori
One bear sighted near a private residence (reported by Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(Report) Emerged from bamboo grass on the east side of the town road. Noticing a car, it fled back into the bamboo grass.
Kosaka, Akita
Apple crop damage, tree trunk damage, feces confirmed (reported from Hirakawa City)
Hirakawa, Aomori
(From Ōwani Town) There was a sighting that a bear had climbed a cherry tree near Yamaguchi Oil, then climbed down, crossed the embankment and fled upstream.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
At around 7:00 a.m. on August 4, one bear was seen climbing a cherry tree in Nijigai, Owani Town.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
[Report] While traveling on the Jukai Line from Towada Lake toward Kosaka city, encountered a bear about 80 cm long on the road at the junction with the Sunagosawa Line. When I braked to stop, the bear slowly entered the brush.
Kosaka, Akita
While doing farm work, I witnessed one bear with brown fur and a body length greater than 1 m in a nearby apple orchard. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post] One bear cub in the rice-husks
Kosaka Daichi, Akita
A bear was sighted in Otarube, Kosakamoyama, Kosaka Town.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
[Post]
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
Black fur. Body length about 1.5 m. Fled toward the west.
Hirosaki, Aomori
While driving, (the bear) crossed the road in front of me from the south to the north and left.
Hirakawa Tateyama, Aomori
Witnessed a dark brown bear about 1 meter in body length while working in the fields. It fled south.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was seen moving in Ozawa Maesawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
It ran off in the direction of Hirakawa.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
While working on the farm, I saw one juvenile bear about 50 cm long sitting on the bank of the Dobuchi River. It ran off to the east.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear was sighted moving in Ozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Around 3:15 p.m. on July 28, one bear was spotted moving in Kuradate Kawarada, Owani Town.
Owani Kuradate, Aomori
[Post] A cub was at the roadside
Kosaka, Akita
A bear was sighted in Kosaka-Kōzan Sugisawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture, around 3:35 PM on July 27.
Kosaka, Akita
[Report] Following last week, three bears (a mother and two cubs) were sighted.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
While jogging toward Danburi Pond, the witness saw a bear fleeing east.
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Report] A single bear about 1.2 meters long was at the roadside of the town road on the west side of the rice fields and entered the forest west of the town road. In this area, encounters and sightings have been occurring in succession: an encounter in a paddy field on May 24, a sighting of one bear on May 31, a sighting of one bear on June 30, and a sighting of two bears—believed to be a parent and offspring—on July 1. It appears to use routes that include the south side of the Sunagosawa settlement and crossing the Sunagosawa River.
Kosaka, Akita
Around 4:10 PM on July 25, a bear was seen moving in Kosaka Sanezawa, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
Posted: A postal worker witnessed it while making deliveries.
Kosaka Kosaka-kozan, Akita
Was eating a watermelon.
Owani Hachimandate, Aomori
[Report] On the town road there was one young bear about 40 centimeters in body length. When it noticed the car, it looked at us once, then changed direction and went into the bushes of Yunotani-chi toward the Sunagosawa River, where it appears to have come from. No adult bear was seen. The cub was about the size expected for one born this year and jet black and clean, looking almost like a stuffed animal. The thought that the mother might be nearby was frightening.
Kosaka, Akita
(From Ōwani town report) There was a report that it ran off toward the river.
Owani Komaki, Aomori
A branch of the apple tree had been broken. In addition to several claw marks on the tree, footprints and droppings were found nearby. [Issued by Hirakawa City]
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
(From Ōwani town post) Ran across and fled through the area near Ameike Community Center (ski resort slope).
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
Around 10:00 on 2026-07-23, traces suggesting a bear appearance were found in Ikariseki Hisayoshi Shitaichitsu, Hirakawa City, Aomori, and apples were damaged.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
One bear was seen moving from the Soma River into bushes in Kagisawa, Hirosaki City.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Bear moving from river into bushes observed from inside a car
Hirosaki, Aomori
Body length about 1 m. Fled eastward.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Crossed from the southbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway to the northbound lanes.
Kosaka, Akita
On 2026-07-21 around 16:45, a bear was sighted moving in Kosaka Kogyo, Kosaka Town, Akita Prefecture.
Kosaka, Akita
A bear was sighted around 11:00 in Sakamoto-Akazawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, and was seen moving.
Hirosaki, Aomori
One bear (just under 1 m in body length) was observed walking from the road in front of Ōwani Town School Lunch Center toward the mountain behind the lunch center.
Owani Nijikai, Aomori
I didn’t actually see the bear, but when I went to check during the peach harvest period I found damage from feeding, and discovered a small amount of droppings that appear to be from a bear.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Ran off toward the mountain to the north.
Hirakawa, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Ikarigaseki Funaoka, Hirakawa City, Aomori, around 4 PM on July 17.
Hirakawa Ikarigaseki-Hisayoshi, Aomori
It poked its head out of the bushes on the left side facing the Kosaka direction, but it immediately withdrew when startled by the car.
Odate, Akita
A single bear about 80 cm in body length crossed the farm road and headed west.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A neighbor spotted one bear (body length approximately 1.0 m) / direction of travel: east / about 10 m from the nearest house
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted in Nagahayashi Jinba, Odate City, around 08:07 on July 15.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A driver who visited JR Jinba Station sighted one bear (approximately 1.0 m in body length) near the tracks / direction of travel: east / about 20 m from the above station
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
It crossed the tracks in front of the platform and walked toward the mountains.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
A bear was sighted moving in Yakushido Minami Kumazawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori on July 15 around 12:30.
Hirosaki, Aomori
Sighted a bear about 1 m in length crossing the Dobuchi River heading toward the cemetery park (east).
Hirosaki, Aomori
[Post]
Kosaka Araya, Akita
Around 14:35 on July 14, a bear was sighted in Kozawa Maezawa, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, and was seen moving.
Hirosaki, Aomori
A bear was sighted in Nagahashiri Jamba, Ōdate City.
Odate Nagabashiri, Akita
Report: A single bear about 80 centimeters long was in the rice-field ridge at 1 Murashita, Kosaka, Kosaka Town. It was walking westward, eating grass along the ridge and beside irrigation channels, then climbed the west-side slope vegetation, crossed the town road, and entered the western woodland. When it spotted a light truck on the town road, it turned back into the vegetation and crossed the road at a distance to avoid it.
Kosaka, Akita
It was crossing the prefectural road from west to east.
Kosaka, Akita
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In the past 30 days, 58 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them.
The latest sighting was reported 1 day ago near Hirosaki, Aomori.
Recent sightings on this route peak around 7:00. Bears are generally most active at dawn and dusk.
This 196 km route runs from Kosaka to Nishimeya, passing through Akita and Aomori. In the past 30 days, 58 bear sightings were reported within 5 km of the route. The past 7 days account for 11 of them. The latest sighting was reported 1 day ago near Hirosaki, Aomori. This is an active bear corridor. Drive through with full caution, but rerouting is the safer choice.
