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Sakado Castle is seeing the sharpest recent push from Minamiuonuma, where a resident spotted a black bear about 1.0 m long near a reservoir at 10:15 on May 3, 2026, and another sighting the same day put a bear of about 1 meter walking north near a pond in Izumidera about 150 m from houses. Earlier that morning, another bear was reported in Izumimyoji, and a separate sighting in Minamiuonuma at 06:40 described an animal believed to be about 1.5 m long.

The busiest ground around Sakado Castle has been Minamiuonuma, Tokamachi, and Yuzawa Kandatsu, with fresh footprints, field reports, and roadside sightings showing the bears are still moving through farm edges and neighborhoods. Activity has been heaviest in October 2025 with 722 incidents and November 2025 with 428, while December 2025 still saw 104 and April 2026 logged 19; altogether this area has recorded 3,206 black bear sightings.