Tottori Prefectural Museum 반달가슴곰 출몰 정보

At Tottori Prefectural Museum in Tottori, the latest black bear report came on April 26, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., when 1 bear was seen moving from the municipal road Sakon Kiyochinai Line up into the mountains on the east side. That kind of movement toward the hills has also shown up in Iwami Town, where bears were spotted heading from the road into the mountains in Arai and Iwami Nii.

The most active area in this record is Iwami Town, especially Iwami Hirano, where repeated sightings of a cub climbing a tree near the prefectural road kept coming through December 2025, with another report in Otani and an earlier one in Kawasaki where claw marks were found on a persimmon tree in the settlement. Activity has been heaviest in late summer and early winter, with August 2025 bringing 16 incidents and November 2025 bringing 8, and the area has logged 398 black bear sightings overall.