Mefu Shrine เหตุการณ์หมีดำ

Mefu Shrine has been watching a tense scene unfold, with the most recent close call on April 19, 2026 in Minoh Gein 3 chome, where a black bear gave a low growl and kept watch from halfway up the slope beside flowing water. The encounter happened in a tight spot with the stream on the right and the hillside on the left, the kind of place where a person can feel boxed in fast.

Across the area, the most active places have been Minoh, Toyono, Sanda, Kobe, Kawanishi, Ikeda, Takarazuka, Ibaraki City, and Nose Town, with reports clustering in November 2025 and September 2025, when 5 incidents were recorded in each month. The shrine area has logged 44 black bear sightings overall, and the recent reports show bears turning up near towns, neighborhoods, and wooded edges rather than staying deep in the mountains.