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Toyokuni Shrine is seeing the same kind of pressure that hit nearby towns most recently: on April 30, 2026, a student spotted one bear like animal in the grass near Kasano Elementary School in Yamakita, Tsubata Town, and staff with the local hunter association searched the area afterward. Around April 28, 2026, a bear was also reported near Kariyasu Elementary School in Tsubata, and other April sightings came from Kurikara and Oyabe, showing the bears are still moving through school edges, temple grounds, roads, and mountain approaches.

The busiest places in this area have been Tsubata, Oyabe, Nanto, and Kanazawa City, with repeated sightings around Kurikara, Fudōji Temple, and Tenjin, where bears have shown up near roads and village edges. Activity peaked in November 2025 with 65 incidents and October 2025 with 59, then stayed active through December 2025 with 11, and the full record for this area now stands at 1,711 black bear sightings.