Yuza~Nikaho 하이킹 루트

Traveled from north to south through the T-shaped intersection at Otake Hall. Body length approximately 50 cm.

Nikaho Otake, Akita

Likely passed by a house and headed toward the mountains.

Nikaho 鳥の海, Akita

One bear moved from in front of Shisumiike Hall toward the pond. Body length approximately 1 m.

Nikaho 鳥屋森, Akita

Around 4:00 PM on 2026-05-22, a bear was seen moving in Kisakata-machi Yotsumii, Nikaho City, Akita Prefecture.

Nikaho 鳥屋森, Akita

A cub went from my yard into the bushes to the east. Body length about 50 cm.

Nikaho 上狐森, Akita

A bear was sighted in Kogamori, Kisakata-machi, Nikaho City.

Nikaho 上狐森, Akita

A single bear cub was seen in the woods beside the road. Its body length was about 50 cm.

Nikaho 上狐森, Akita

Around 15:00 on May 21, 2026, a bear about 60 cm long was sighted in a rice field in Matsuba, Kisakatacho, Nikaho City by a woman in her 50s driving a car. According to the Yurihonjo Police, the site is about 140 meters from the nearest building, and other sightings have been reported nearby; the police are urging residents to be cautious.

Nikaho 上狐森, Akita

At about 10:35 a.m. on May 21, a bear approximately 1.2 meters in length was sighted by a man in his 70s at a park in Nyudojima, Kisakata-cho, Nikaho City, Akita Prefecture. According to the Yurihonjo police, the bear was about 10 meters from a nearby house, and the police have warned residents to be cautious.

Nikaho 象潟島, Akita

Witnessed one bear running inside Nyudojima Children's Park. Body length approximately 1 m.

Nikaho 象潟島, Akita

While driving on the prefectural road toward the hospital area, I spotted one bear crossing. Body length about 1 m.

Nikaho, Akita

Distance to houses: 800 m; Body length: approximately 0.7 m

Yurihonjō Nishisawa, Akita

A single bear cub crossed the city road toward the mountains.

Nikaho Maesawa, Akita

Approximately 1 meter long. Witnessed a bear in a rice field.

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Hongo, Akita

Spotted one approximately 1.5 m bear on the JR Uetsu Line tracks. 2 m from a house.

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Osugo, Akita

At around 08:15 on the 10th, a bear approximately 1.5 meters long was sighted on the railway tracks at Daidōshita, Osugo, Kisakata-cho, Nikaho City, Akita Prefecture. A man in his 70s who was walking nearby spotted the bear, which was about 2 meters from a nearby house; the Yurihonjo police warned residents to be cautious.

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Osugo, Akita

One bear about 80 cm in body length was walking north from a rice field.

Nikaho Otake, Akita

While gathering bracken ferns, I was periodically checking around for bears when one suddenly appeared from behind a hill. I’m not sure whether it noticed me, but it ran off toward the north.

Nikaho Toshi, Akita

At about 14:25 on May 8, 2026, a woman in her 60s at the Koide after-school childcare club 'Keyakikko' in Hashimoto, Nakamisaji, Nikaho City, sighted a single bear approximately 60 cm long on the facility grounds. Police contacted related agencies, patrolled the area by squad car, and warned residents to be cautious.

Nikaho Terada, Akita

One bear cub sighted near the former Koide Elementary School

Nikaho Terada, Akita

One cub (about 50 cm) was seen moving from the bushes into the rice field.

Nikaho Terada, Akita

Announcements by loudspeaker and by car warned that a bear had been seen near the former Koide Elementary School.

Nikaho Terada, Akita

Saw a bear cub running up the embankment at Nagaoka Community Hall

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Nagaoka, Akita

At around 11:40 a.m. on the 4th, a bear was sighted on a slope near the Nagaoka community center in Nagaoka, Iejiri, Kisakata-cho, Nikaho City, Akita Prefecture. According to the Yurihonjo Police, the bear's body length is unknown; it was about 100 meters from the nearest house, and the police have warned residents to be cautious.

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Nagaoka, Akita

While we had parked the car and were walking down to the beach with my family to look for things like sea glass, we found footprints that looked like a bear’s and immediately left the area.

Nikaho, Akita

[Report] Bear sighted at Kosunagawa Beach. Body length unknown.

Nikaho Kisakatamachi-Kosagawa, Akita

Around 14:00 on April 26, 2026, a parent-and-child bear was sighted near the nursing home Shoto-so in Sugasato, Yusa Town, and the town urged nearby residents to be cautious. Since late February, sightings of bears and wild boar have been frequent in Yusa Town, and there have been 74 bear sightings in the prefecture so far, an increase at a pace exceeding last year's record.

Yuza 菅里, Yamagata