Lake Notoro เหตุการณ์หมีสีน้ำตาล

Lake Notoro is seeing the sharpest recent attention in Kitami Tokoro cho Kyoritsu, where on April 22, 2026 two brown bears or bear like animals were reported in the urban area of Tokoro, and the Tokoro branch office issued warnings by disaster radio. Just before that, on April 21, 2026 at 4:20 a.m., a motorist on National Route 238 in Tokoro cho, Kitami City spotted one brown bear, and another report came from Tosa on April 18, 2026 at 10:10 a.m. when a driver on the Dodo Kitami Tokoro Line saw an animal resembling a brown bear.

The main pressure points are the Tokoro area of Kitami City and parts of Abashiri, including Ichiyasaka near the Tokyo University of Agriculture Okhotsk Campus and Yobito, where repeated road sightings have been reported. Activity was busiest in October 2025 with 4 incidents and again in April 2025 with 4, while the full record for Lake Notoro stands at 36 brown bear sightings overall.