Adachi Ward, Tokyo~Inawashiro 드라이브 루트

A bear about 1.2 m long was sighted in the forest at Daishin Toyochi, Shirakawa City.

Shirakawa 大信豊地, Fukushima

Three bears (lengths unknown) were sighted in the mountains beside the municipal road.

Inawashiro 字堤東, Fukushima

Around 7:20 PM on 2026-07-22, a bear was sighted in Iwasato-Ueno, Inawashiro Town, Fukushima Prefecture.

Inawashiro 字五十軒道南, Fukushima

Sano 田之入町, Tochigi

One bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) was sighted in the forested area on the east side of Prefectural Route 322.

Inawashiro 大字八幡, Fukushima

One bear (about 1 meter in body length) was sighted on a residential property but left for the forest.

Motomiya 荒井, Fukushima

On the morning of 2026-07-20, a bear was seen moving in Arai Hayama, Motomiya City, Fukushima.

Motomiya 荒井, Fukushima

A bear was sighted in Toyomae-hama, Inawashiro Town.

Inawashiro 大字金田, Fukushima

One bear (approximately 1 meter in length) was sighted beside National Route 49.

Inawashiro 大字金田, Fukushima

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

Inawashiro 大字金田, Fukushima

Koriyama, Fukushima

Koriyama, Fukushima

Around 18:20 on 2026-07-19, one bear about 1.2 m long was sighted in farmland in Fujicho, Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture.

Sano 富士町, Tochigi

Nasushiobara 上大貫, Tochigi

Sano 富士町, Tochigi

One bear was inside a building lot in Dōmachi Minami, Inawashiro Town.

Inawashiro 字並杉西, Fukushima

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

Inawashiro 字並杉西, Fukushima

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

Motomiya 荒井, Fukushima

A bear was sighted in Arai Hayama, Motomiya City, Fukushima, around 4:30 PM on July 17, 2026.

Motomiya 荒井, Fukushima

One bear approximately 1 meter in body length was sighted. The bear has since already departed.

Koriyama, Fukushima

A bear was sighted in Naka-yasuda, Atami-machi, Koriyama City around 6:00 PM on July 16.

Koriyama, Fukushima

A single bear (about 1.5 meters in body length) was sighted in the grassy area north of National Route 49.

Inawashiro 大字金田, Fukushima

Around 6:10 PM on 2026-07-14, a bear was sighted in Nishi-Iwasaki, Nasushiobara City.

Nasushiobara 西岩崎, Tochigi

A single bear (approximately 1 meter in body length) was sighted on the paved road.

Inawashiro 字城南, Fukushima

Around 6:50 PM on 2026-07-13, an animal believed to be a bear was sighted in Otawa, Fujioka-machi, Tochigi City.

Tochigi Fujiokamachi Ōdawa, Tochigi

Tochigi Fujiokamachi Ōdawa, Tochigi

Nasushiobara 塩野崎, Tochigi

Nasushiobara 春日町, Tochigi

A bear was sighted in Tsuboyo Minamihama, Inawashiro Town, Fukushima, around 09:30 on July 6.

Inawashiro 大字金田, Fukushima

A bear was sighted in Shimotano, Nasushiobara City, around 8:30 a.m. on July 3.

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

On Thursday, July 2 at approximately 11:25 a.m., near the 98.2-kilometer post on the outbound (up) lanes of the Ban-etsu Expressway in Katada, Inawashiro Town, a driver in his 40s observed a single bear (about 1 m in length) crossing the highway from the north side to the south side (toward the center of the road) while traveling on the outbound Ban-etsu Expressway (toward Iwaki). When the witness’s vehicle approached, the bear left toward the north side of the road.

Inawashiro 大字千代田, Fukushima

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

Around 6 PM on 2026-07-01, a bear was sighted in Shimotano, Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture.

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

On Tuesday, June 30 at around 7:00 p.m., on National Route 49 in Azosawa, Tamagawa, Atami-machi, Kōriyama City, a witness driving observed one bear (approximately 50 cm in body length) crossing National Route 49 from east to west. The direction in which it left afterward is unknown.

Koriyama, Fukushima

On Tuesday, June 30 at about 2:10 p.m., on a municipal road in Miyakita, Iwane, Inawashiro Town, a witness (male in his 60s) was driving west on the road when he saw one bear (about 1.2 m in length) cross the road and walk off into rice paddies to the south.

Inawashiro 大字磐根, Fukushima

Nasushiobara 下田野, Tochigi

On Monday, June 29 at around 11:20 a.m., near 312-1 Maeda Ko, Chiyoda, Inawashiro Town, south of Inawashiro Town Dai-ni Elementary School, a witness (female in her 50s), while on duty on the elementary school premises, sighted one bear (body length unknown) near the south side of the school. The bear later departed to the south.

Inawashiro 大字千代田, Fukushima

It was lumbering along through the field. When it noticed us, it ran toward the road.

Inawashiro 大字千代田, Fukushima

Around 10:17 a.m. on Monday, June 29, a witness driving a train in the area west of the former Nakayama-shuku station, Jōnōwaki, Nakayama, Atami-machi, Kōriyama City, saw one bear (about 50 cm in body length) appear from the trackbed south side and then turn back to the south. The subsequent direction in which the bear departed is unknown.

Koriyama 熱海町安子島, Fukushima

On Monday, June 29 at approximately 5:30 a.m., in the forested area of Futaishi Nakayama in Shirakawa City, a man in his 40s driving a vehicle sighted one bear (about 1 meter in length).

Shirakawa 南池下, Fukushima

One bear was seen in a forest area in Futaishi Nakayama, Shirakawa City.

Shirakawa 南池下, Fukushima

Nasu, Tochigi