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Morioka Minamichiku Kouen

盛岡南地区公園

11 bear incidents recorded · Last sighted 6 months ago

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Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate
Official

Saw one adult bear on the grounds of Matsuzono Elementary School.

Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate

6 months ago
Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate
Official

Sighted one bear of unknown size in the area.

Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate

6 months ago
Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate
Official

One adult bear was seen walking in the mountains east of Makabori Junior High School (around the Yaotoremori greenspace). The direction it went is unknown.

Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate

6 months ago
Mukanakano 5-chome, Morioka City, Iwate
News

On the morning of November 18, 2025, one bear entered the rooftop parking lot of the DCM Sennan store in Mukanakano 5-chome, Morioka City, and remained there for more than three hours. Around 11:00 a.m., a veterinarian administered an anesthetic dart and the immobilized bear was captured; no injuries were reported.

Mukanakano 5-chome, Morioka City, Iwate

6 months ago
DCM Seinan store rooftop parking (Mukainakano, Morioka), Iwate
News

At around 07:40 on November 18, 2025, an adult bear was sighted in the rooftop parking lot of the DCM Seinan home center in Mukainakano, Morioka. The exits were sealed and after roughly three hours the bear was anesthetized with a blowpipe and captured around 10:50; no human or property damage was reported.

DCM Seinan store rooftop parking (Mukainakano, Morioka), Iwate

6 months ago
Mukanakano, Morioka, Iwate
News

On the morning of the 18th, a single Asiatic black bear appeared in central Morioka. Around 06:10 it rammed the automatic doors of the Iwate Education Hall, then entered the rooftop parking of the DCM Sennan store in Mukanakano; it was immobilized with a tranquilizer dart about three hours later. There were no injuries or property damage; the bear was an adult male about 1.5 m long and the city intends to dispose of it.

Mukanakano, Morioka, Iwate

6 months ago
Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate
Official

A single young bear was sighted in a field near the cycling path along the Shizukuishi River riverbed. It moved into nearby brush.

Morioka Mukainakano 7-chome, Iwate

6 months ago
Morioka Motomiya 3-chome, Iwate
Official

Dent corn has been toppled and eaten.

Morioka Motomiya 3-chome, Iwate

6 months ago

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