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Kasugayama Castle has recently seen a black bear reported on May 9, 2026 at 12:45 along the municipal road Shimokawa Izawatuboyama Line in Joetsu, and the animal was moving east. Just before that, Joetsu had another bear moving through a rice field on May 5, 2026 at 05:40, and a separate sighting that same morning placed one bear in a rice field in Komodachi, Itakura ward about 200 meters from a house.

The busiest areas in this record are Joetsu and Myoko, where bears have been turning up on roads, in rice fields, and even near parking lots and shopping areas. Activity has been strongest in October with 40 incidents and June with 36, while November had 26 and May 2025 had 22, showing that the pressure stays high across the warmer months and into autumn. Across this area, there have been 605 black bear sightings in total.