Ishioka~Tsuruoka 하이킹 루트

Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Banseicho-Kariyasu, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Nanyo 赤湯, Yamagata

Around 5:00 PM on 2026-07-16, two bears were sighted in Mansekimachi Kariyasu, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Yonezawa Banseicho-Kariyasu, Yamagata

One bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) was sighted.

Fukushima, Fukushima

Environment: Riverside / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Two bears (each about 0.3 meters in body length) were sighted in the undergrowth.

Miharu 字清水畑, Fukushima

Around 7:30 a.m. on the 15th, one bear about 1 meter long was seen in Sekine district, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Farmland / Size: Unknown

Yonezawa Hanazawa, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Hanazawa, Yonezawa City, on the morning of 2026-07-14.

Yonezawa Hanazawa, Yamagata

One bear approximately 1 meter in length was sighted crossing the road from west to east. It was not seen afterward.

Yamagata Zao-Hotta, Yamagata

One bear was sighted on a road in Zaō Ueno, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Zao-Uwano, Yamagata

Environment: Near human dwellings / Size: Juvenile (young bear)

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Another bear was sighted around 10:00 a.m. in Zaō Ueno, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Zao-Uwano, Yamagata

One bear approximately 60 cm in length sighted on the road / Environment: roadway / Size: cub

Yamagata Kanno, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Zaō Ueno, Yamagata City, around 14:42 on July 13.

Yamagata Zao-Uwano, Yamagata

Environment: Farmland / Size: Unknown

Yonezawa Banseicho-Zusayama, Yamagata

Environment: Near dwellings / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Near homes / Size: Unknown

Sakata 浜中, Yamagata

Around 6:00 a.m. in Nakano-me, Nihonmatsu City, one bear about 1.5 m long was sighted crossing a field.

Nihonmatsu 中ノ目, Fukushima

Environment: riverbed / Size: adult (fully grown)

Tsuruoka 大宝寺, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Shinyu, Yuno, Iizakamachi, Fukushima City around 16:40 on July 11.

Fukushima Iizakamachi, Fukushima

Around 4:30 PM on July 11, a bear was sighted in Daiboji, Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Tsuruoka 大宝寺, Yamagata

Environment: Riverbed / Size: Adult and cub

Yonezawa Hosenmachi, Yamagata

Environment: Farmland / Size: Unknown

Nishikawa 大字沼山, Yamagata

Sighting reported near Harada Bridge / Environment: Around residential area / Size: Unknown

Oe 大字原田, Yamagata

Environment: road / Size: adult (fully grown)

Yonezawa Kiwada, Yamagata

Around 13:15 on 2026-07-10, a bear was sighted in Oshikiri Shinden, Mikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture.

Mikawa 大字押切新田, Yamagata

While heading north on former Route 7, I spotted an animal that appeared to be a bear cub on the riverbed. (Around 13:30) / Environment: riverbed / Size: juvenile

Mikawa 大字押切新田, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Hirose-Hanmonba, Takine-machi, Tamura City around 12:50 on July 10.

Tamura, Fukushima

A bear was sighted around 18:00 in Takei, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Yonezawa Takei, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in Oshikiri-shinden, Mikawa Town, as it tried to go up from the riverbed to the embankment.

Mikawa 大字押切新田, Yamagata

Attempted to climb up the levee from the riverbed, was startled by a car and returned to the riverbed. (Sighted around 16:32) / Environment: Roadway / Size: Unknown

Mikawa 大字押切新田, Yamagata

Environment: Riverbanks / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

One bear about 80 cm long was sighted in Sekine, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

One bear about 80 cm long was sighted in Sekine, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Near human habitation / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字宮内, Yamagata

Environment: Farmland / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字宮内, Yamagata

A bear about 1 meter long was sighted near a residence in Seisukeshinden, Sagae City.

Sagae 大字清助新田, Yamagata

Environment: Near inhabited areas / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字清助新田, Yamagata

A bear was sighted moving in Shono Nukubun, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Shono, Fukushima

Around 1:00 PM, one bear about 80 cm long was sighted in Sekine, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Banseicho-Zusayama, Yamagata

Environment: Agricultural land / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Observed moving to the west. / Environment: farmland / Size: unknown

Mikawa 大字神花, Yamagata

While driving south (toward the mountain side), I saw one bear walking south on the left side of the road. It then entered the woods beside the road. Body length about 1 m. / Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Yamagata Nakasakurada, Yamagata

One bear about 1 meter long was seen on a road in Nakazukada, Yamagata City, walking south before entering the woods beside the road.

Yamagata Nakasakurada, Yamagata

Around 8:00 on 2026-07-08, one bear of unknown body length was sighted in a field in Kamihana, Mikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture.

Mikawa 大字神花, Yamagata

There was a black object that appeared to be a bear; after checking a video on a smartphone, the person reported it. / Environment: Near residential area / Size: Unknown

Tsuruoka 日枝, Yamagata

A bear about 1 meter long was sighted in Misawa, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Ogoya, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Ogoya, Yamagata

Environment: Around residential area / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字留場, Yamagata

One bear was sighted at Koganebarahara Park in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata.

Tsuruoka 日枝, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Matsukawamachi Kanazawanagamine, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, on 2026-07-06.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Kanezawa, Fukushima

Around 11:30 on 2026-07-06, one bear about 70 cm long was sighted in a forest in the Misawa area of Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Banseicho-Kariyasu, Yamagata

Around 5:00 on 2026-07-05, one bear about 1 meter long was sighted near Yonezawa Ski Resort in the Bakasecho Kariyasu area of Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Banseicho-Kariyasu, Yamagata

Environment: railway / Size: adult

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

One bear was in a forested area in Babadaira, Nihonmatsu City.

Nihonmatsu 馬場平, Fukushima

Environment: On the railroad tracks / Size: Adult animal

Yonezawa Itaya, Yamagata

Around 16:40 on 2026-07-04, one bear about 1 meter long was sighted in Itaya, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Itaya, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Shimonoji Tohara, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Shimonodera, Fukushima

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Environment: Around residential houses / Size: Unknown

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Three bears of unknown size were sighted in Sekine, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: On the tracks / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

One bear about 1 meter long was sighted in Misawa, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

A bear about 50 cm in body length was sighted moving north. / Environment: Road / Size: Juvenile

Yamagata Monden, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Zaitenbakamatsubara, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Zainiwasaka, Fukushima

On Wednesday, July 1 at approximately 4:20 p.m., near the Niwatsuka Ohashi bridge in the Matsubara area of Niwatsuka, Fukushima City, a motorist traveling southbound sighted one bear (about 1 meter in body length) crossing the municipal road on the north side of Niwatsuka Ohashi from west to east.

Fukushima Zainiwasaka, Fukushima

A cub was sighted on the tracks in Tori-machi 1-chome, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in Higashiodori 1-chome, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

Environment: Farmland / Size: Adult

Nanyo 宮内, Yamagata

Environment: On the railway tracks / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in Miyauchi, Nanyo City, Yamagata.

Nanyo 宮内, Yamagata

Environment: Near railway tracks / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

On 2026-07-01 in the morning, one bear cub was sighted in Misawa, Yonezawa City.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Minamihara-Yokoborimachi, Yamagata

Moved westward from the sighting location / Environment: farmland / Size: adult

Kaminoyama 上生居, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in farmland in Kamiine, Kaminoyama City.

Kaminoyama 上生居, Yamagata

On June 29 at about 6:00 p.m., a report was received that footage from a security camera in the forested area of Utsuyama, Aza Uchisaka, Niteizaka, Fukushima City, showed one bear (body length unknown).

Fukushima Zainiwasaka, Fukushima

On Monday, June 29 at about 5:30 p.m., in the Shukkan-uchi area of Haruyama, Funabiki Town, Tamura City, a male witness in a field, while driving nearby, observed one bear (approximately 1 m in body length) moving south.

Tamura Funehikimachi-Haruyama, Fukushima

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

One bear was seen moving in Haruyama, Funhiki-machi, Tamura City.

Tamura Funehikimachi-Haruyama, Fukushima

Around 4:00 PM on 2026-06-29, one bear was sighted in Sekine, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture. The bear was estimated to be about 1 meter long.

Yonezawa Sekine, Yamagata

A bear was sighted in Hiranoboshita, Iizaka-machi, Fukushima City, around 6:30 PM on June 28.

Fukushima Iizakamachi, Fukushima

On Sunday, June 28 at around 6:30 p.m., on the north-side walkway of Iizaka Cemetery in Hirano, Iizaka-machi, Fukushima City, a witness (male, in his 40s) spotted three bears approaching from the opposite direction while he was walking west. One bear (A) was about 1 m in body length, and the other two (B and C) were about 50 cm each.

Fukushima Iizakamachi, Fukushima

On Sunday, June 28 at approximately 9:50 a.m., on the Joban Nakoso Line (major prefectural road) in Tsukada, Hiruno, Watanabe-machi, Iwaki City, a witness (a woman in her 20s) driving near the sighting location observed one bear (about 1 meter in body length) near the rice fields beside the road.

Iwaki 中部工業団地, Fukushima

Around 09:50 on 2026-06-28, a bear was sighted in Watanabe-cho Hiruno, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture.

Iwaki 渡辺町昼野, Fukushima

Environment: On the tracks / Size: Juvenile

Yonezawa Misawa, Yamagata

A bear about 1 m in length was observed crossing the road from north to south. Its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. / Environment: road / Size: adult

Yamagata Nakasakurada, Yamagata

A bear-like animal of unknown body length was sighted near the gazebo on Kumomi Hill. Its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. / Environment: Yuso Hill / Size: Unknown

Yamagata Kamisakurada, Yamagata

Around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, a witness spotted one bear (body length unknown) on the Arakawa riverside near Hinokura Bridge in the Shono, Kita-Hinokura area of Fukushima City.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

One bear was sighted on the Arakawa riverbank in Shono Hino-kura, Fukushima City, near Hinokura Bridge.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

A bear-like animal was sighted at Yuso-no-oka park in Kamisakurada, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Kamisakurada, Yamagata

One bear (approximately 80 cm) was sighted entering the southwest mountain near the baseball field of Tsuruoka National College of Technology. Its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. / Environment: forest / Size: juvenile

Tsuruoka 井岡, Yamagata

At around 15:58 on June 26, a bear was sighted in Ioka, Tsuruoka City.

Tsuruoka 井岡, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in Zaou Ueno, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Zao-Uwano, Yamagata

Around 16:30, one bear (1 m) was spotted in Matsukawa-machi Mizuhara, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Mizuhara, Fukushima

On Thursday, June 25 at around 4:30 p.m., in the Mizuhara area of Matsukawa-machi, Fukushima City, a witness (male in his 50s) sighted one bear (approximately 1 m in body length) coming out of the brush.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Mizuhara, Fukushima

One bear was sighted in Haraguchi, Kaminoyama City.

Kaminoyama 原口, Yamagata

While driving toward Yamagata city, I observed one bear crossing the road eastward (toward the mountains). Estimated body length about 1 m. / Environment: road / Size: adult

Yamagata Nakasakurada, Yamagata

Environment: Near houses / Size: Adult

Kaminoyama 原口, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Adult

Nanyo 上野, Yamagata

On Thursday, June 25 at about 5:30 a.m., in a forested area of Oyama Osarakubo, Otama Village, a witness (male in his 70s) observed one bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) walking along the woodland near nearby houses. The bear then left into the forest.

Otama, Fukushima

Around 12:40 on 2026-06-25, one bear was sighted in Haraguchi, Kaminoyama City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Kaminoyama 原口, Yamagata

Around noon on Thursday, June 25, in the Ashiike area of Hiraishi, Fukushima City, on Prefectural Route 148, a witness (male in his 70s) observed one bear (about 50 cm in body length) crossing the road from east to west while driving.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Sekiya, Fukushima

A man in his 70s driving a car saw one bear crossing Route 148 in Hiraishi, Fukushima City, from east to west.

Fukushima Hiraishi, Fukushima

Around noon on 2026-06-25, a bear was sighted at Hiraishi Ashiike, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Sekiya, Fukushima

One bear was sighted in Ueno, Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture, crossing a road from north to south about 400 meters southeast of the former Hygeia Park.

Nanyo 上野, Yamagata

On Wednesday, June 24 at around 10:00 p.m., on a road within the Iwaki City Yoshima Industrial Park, a witness (male in his 20s) while driving saw one bear (about 1.5 m in length) cross the road from south to north ahead of his vehicle. The bear’s subsequent movements are unknown.

Iwaki 好間工業団地, Fukushima

In Yoshima Industrial Park, Iwaki City, a man driving a vehicle saw one bear.

Iwaki 好間工業団地, Fukushima

On Wednesday, June 24 at approximately 6:40 p.m., in the Koyama area of Iwane, Motomiya City, a nearby resident spotted two bears walking through a field (one about 1 m in length, the other about 50 cm). The bears subsequently left on foot toward the forested area to the north.

Motomiya 岩根, Fukushima

Environment: Near houses / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Minamihara-Yokoborimachi, Yamagata

One bear was seen crossing near the Fukushima-side entrance of the Higashi-Kurikoto Tunnel on National Route 13 in Iizaka-machi Nakano, Fukushima City.

Fukushima, Fukushima

On Wednesday, June 24 at approximately 4:50 PM, near the Fukushima Prefecture-side entrance/exit of the Higashi-Kuriko Tunnel on National Route 13 in Nakano, Iizaka Town, Fukushima City, a witness (female, in her 30s) observed, while driving, one bear (about 50 cm in body length) crossing National Route 13 from north to south.

Fukushima, Fukushima

Environment: Road / Size: Juvenile

Nishikawa, Yamagata

On Wednesday, June 24 at approximately 10:30 a.m., on the Heiwa Line main farm road in Ōzaka, Ōtama Village (Ōyama, Ōsarakkubo area), a witness (male in his 60s) driving a vehicle observed a single bear (about 50 cm in body length) sitting in the woodland adjacent to the road. The bear then ran off east into the forested area.

Otama, Fukushima

In Tamugimata, Tsuruoka, a 41-year-old man picking Gassan bamboo shoots was bitten in the waist by a bear and injured.

Tsuruoka, Yamagata

At about 8:30 a.m., in the mountains about 1 km east of Yudonosan Ski Area, a man picking bamboo shoots sighted an adult bear with a cub and was attacked and injured by the cub (approximately 1.0 m in size). / Environment: forest / Size: adult and cub

Tsuruoka, Yamagata

A bear was sighted around 7:45 AM in Kaminagura Somekita, Fukushima City.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

On Wednesday, June 24, at around 7:45 a.m., a witness spotted one bear (approximately 50 cm in body length) in the Somenkita area of Kaminakura, Fukushima City. The bear headed toward the river to the north and its subsequent whereabouts are unknown.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

On Tuesday, June 23 at approximately 6:45 p.m., near the 245-kilometer post on the southbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway underpass in Akagai-Mori area, Matsukawa-machi, Fukushima City, a driver (male, in his 40s) traveling on the expressway observed a bear (one animal, about 50 cm in body length) attempting to cross the road from the shoulder into the lanes of the southbound Tohoku Expressway (toward Sendai). When the witness sounded his horn, the bear returned to the shoulder. Its subsequent whereabouts are unknown.

Fukushima Matsukawamachi-Sekiya, Fukushima

On Tuesday, June 23 at around 6:25 p.m., on a town road in the Shioniwa area of Ono Town, a female witness driving north on the road saw one animal believed to be a bear (about 1 m in body length) crossing the road from east to west. The animal then ran off toward the mountains to the west.

Ono Shioniwa, Fukushima

An animal believed to be a bear crossed a town road in Shio-niwa.

Ono Shioniwa, Fukushima

On 2026-06-23 at about 18:22, a bear was sighted in Yui Kamekubo, Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture.

Nihonmatsu 油井, Fukushima

On Tuesday, June 23 at approximately 6:22 PM, in the Kabuko area of Yui, Nihonmatsu City, a witness (male in his 60s) driving a vehicle saw one bear (about 1 meter in body length) moving north through fields. Its subsequent whereabouts are unknown.

Nihonmatsu 矢ノ戸, Fukushima

On Tuesday, June 23 at around 6:20 p.m., on Prefectural Route 5 in the Shono Nukiwari area of Fukushima City, a witness (female in her 30s) saw one bear (approximately 1 m in body length) while driving. The bear then left into the brush on the west side of the road.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

Around 18:20 on 2026-06-23, a woman driving in Shono, Fukushima City, spotted one bear about 1 m long crossing Prefectural Route 5.

Fukushima Shono, Fukushima

Observed an adult bear moving in a mixed broadleaf grove. / Environment: mixed broadleaf grove / Size: adult

Yamagata Minamihango, Yamagata

Environment: Railway / Size: Adult

Yonezawa Banseicho-Tatsuzawa, Yamagata

One bear (1 m) entered the bushes on the south side of Kamo Community Center. / Environment: near houses / Size: adult

Tsuruoka 加茂, Yamagata

One bear sighted while walking / Environment: forest / Size: adult

Yamagata Kamisakurada, Yamagata

One bear was sighted on the north side of Yuso no Oka in Kamisakurada, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Kamisakurada, Yamagata

One bear was sighted in a wooded area in Zao Hango, Yamagata City.

Yamagata Higashihango, Yamagata

Environment: Riverbed / Size: Unknown

Yamagata Kunugizawanishi, Yamagata

Environment: riverbank / Size: adult

Takahata 大字上平柳, Yamagata

On Saturday, June 20 at around 1:50 p.m., in the Yoshima Industrial Park area of Iwaki City, a witness (male in his 30s) observed, while driving, one animal believed to be a bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) crossing the road.

Iwaki 好間工業団地, Fukushima

One bear-like animal was seen crossing a road in the Yoshima Industrial Park area of Iwaki City.

Iwaki 好間工業団地, Fukushima

On Saturday, June 20 at approximately 5:20 a.m., in Mine-ne within Miyamachi, Uchigo, Iwaki City, a male witness driving a vehicle observed a bear (about 1 meter in body length) crossing the road and entering the mountains.

Iwaki 内郷宮町, Fukushima

One bear was seen crossing a road and entering the mountains in Mine, Uchigo-Miyamachi, Iwaki City.

Iwaki 内郷宮町, Fukushima

Environment: Farmland / Size: Juvenile (young animal)

Nanyo 元中山, Yamagata

On Friday, June 19 at around 12:35 PM, in the Arakawa riverbed area of Shono, Nukkawari (Shono Aza Nukibun) in Fukushima City, a witness (male in his 40s) sighted one bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) on the riverbed.

Fukushima Kaminagura, Fukushima

A bear about 1 meter long was sighted in Kamigawara, Sagae City.

Sagae 字上河原, Yamagata

Environment: Near residential area / Size: Adult

Sagae 字上河原, Yamagata

Environment: Near houses / Size: Adult

Sagae 字上河原, Yamagata

Environment: Road / Size: Adult (fully grown)

Takahata 大字泉岡, Yamagata

At around 14:00, one bear (approximately 1.5 m in body length) was sighted on the road about 400 m southeast of Yutagawa Community Center. It moved westward and its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. / Environment: near houses / Size: adult

Tsuruoka 藤沢, Yamagata

Environment: Near residences / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字清助新田, Yamagata

Environment: Near human habitation / Size: Adult

Sagae 緑町, Yamagata

Environment: Forest / Size: Adult

Sagae 緑町, Yamagata

Environment: Near human dwellings / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字清助新田, Yamagata

Environment: Near residential area / Size: Adult

Sagae 大字西根, Yamagata