Location
Description
No. 11 — Utanobori Central sighting location (August 11, Heisei 8 [1996]) Around 16:10 in the afternoon, a brown bear about 1.5 m in body length was sighted at the roadside approximately 500 m toward Otoineppu from Medobetsu Bridge on the Esashi–Otoineppu Prefectural Road.
Note: Official sources provide information in Japanese only. This description has been machine translated for your convenience.
Bear Type
Brown Bear
Number of Bears
1
Provider Type
Official
Date & Time
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 03:00 PM
Address
Esashi, Hokkaido
Coordinates
44.821494, 142.422547
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