เส้นทางเดินป่า Annaka-Yamagata

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Karuizawa 大字追分, Nagano

Tsumagoi, Gunma

One bear was sighted in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town; the area has nearby homes and the bear was about 1 meter long.

Karuizawa 中軽井沢, Nagano

Tsumagoi Kanbara, Gunma

Size: adult

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Size: adult

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Around 4:00 PM on May 28, a bear was sighted in Nagakura, Karuizawa Town.

Karuizawa 中軽井沢, Nagano

Size: Adult

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Nakanojō Oshi, Gunma

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Karuizawa 大字追分, Nagano

Size: adult

Karuizawa 軽井沢, Nagano

Tsumagoi Saikubo, Gunma

Size: juvenile

Karuizawa 大字長倉, Nagano

Size: adult

Karuizawa 軽井沢, Nagano

A black bear was standing on all four paws at the roadside.

Karuizawa, Nagano

Size: Adult

Karuizawa, Nagano

A bear was crossing the road.

Karuizawa, Nagano

Tsumagoi Saikubo, Gunma

While proceeding along the Romantic Road from Mine-no-chaya, I saw a bear larger than one meter in the stand of mixed trees on my left.

Karuizawa, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Sanada-machi Soba, Ueda City.

Ueda, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Shimonishijo, Nagano

Around 18:45 on 2026-06-04, an animal believed to be a bear was sighted in Soga, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture.

Shiojiri Daimon, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Sasaga, Matsumoto City, Nagano, around 08:50 on 2026-06-04.

Matsumoto, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Agematsu 旭町, Nagano

A report was made in Seba, Shiojiri City, about an animal resembling a bear.

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: adult

Kiso 大字菅, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Ueda, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Kukohigashi, Nagano

A 45-year-old farm worker woman nearby called 110 to report seeing a bear in Sasaga, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto, Nagano

Size: Adult

Matsumoto Kukohigashi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Shinkai, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Shinkai, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Hirooka-Harashinden, Nagano

A bear-like animal was sighted in Tokorogi, Nagiso Town, Nagano.

Nagiso NAINO, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Agematsu, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Niekawa, Nagano

Size: unknown

Nagiso Tadachi, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Nagiso, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Juvenile

Ueda, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Shimonishijo, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Agematsu, Nagano

Around 18:35 on 2026-05-29, one bear was sighted in Shimadachi, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture.

Matsumoto Shimadachi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Agematsu, Nagano

Size: Adult

Matsumoto Shinagura, Nagano

Size: cub (young bear)

Agematsu 旭町, Nagano

Size: adult with cub

Azumino 豊科田沢, Nagano

Size: cub (young animal)

Agematsu 大字小川, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Agematsu 旭町, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Kiso 大字薮原, Nagano

Size: Juvenile

Azumino 豊科田沢, Nagano

Ueda Ueno, Nagano

Nakanojō Oshi, Gunma

Two Cubs/young bears spotted running across hikers path

Shiojiri Narai, Nagano

One bear sighting reported

Seki 植野, Gifu

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Atobe, Mugegawa-cho, Seki City.

Seki 武芸川町跡部, Gifu

Size: Adult

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Agematsu 旭町, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Soga, Nagano

Size: adult

Ookuwa, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

A report was received of one bear sighted near Onda Manufacturing.

Seki 広見北町, Gifu

Tsumagoi Ozasa, Gunma

One bear was captured with a tranquilizer gun at Nanbu Park in Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Yoshino, Nagano

One bear was caught on a company security camera in Hiratahigashi, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Ichiba, Nagano

On 2026-05-22 before 08:00, a bear was reported in a yard in Kotobuki-kita, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture.

Matsumoto Ichiba, Nagano

Around 6:30 PM on May 22, a bear was sighted in Honhara, Sanada-machi, Ueda City.

Ueda Sanadamachi-Motohara, Nagano

Size: Adult

Matsumoto Yoshino, Nagano

A bear was sighted around 7:30 a.m. in a residential area of Kotobuki-kita 8, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Kotobuki-toyooka, Nagano

Ueda, Nagano

Ueda, Nagano

One bear was seen in Nambu Park in Matsumoto, Nagano, stayed on a tree for about an hour, and was captured with a tranquilizer gun.

Matsumoto Yoshino, Nagano

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Azumino 豊科田沢, Nagano

Small black bear

Kiso, Nagano

Around 07:00 on May 21, 2026, one bear was sighted in a residential area near the Kobo-yama kofun in Namiyanagi, Matsumoto City. Namiyanagi Elementary School was closed temporarily and 54 pupils who had already arrived were handed over to their guardians. Police and municipal authorities searched the area but did not find the bear; footprints believed to be from a bear were found in a nearby field. No human injuries were reported.

Matsumoto Namiyanagi, Nagano

A resident reported seeing a bear in Nariai, Matsumoto City, and called 110.

Matsumoto Namiyanagi, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Namiyanagi, Nagano

Size: cub (juvenile)

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Agematsu 大字上松, Nagano

A report was received of one bear sighted near the Mugegawa roadside station.

Seki 植野, Gifu

Adult size bears

Kiso, Nagano

On May 20, 2026 at around 16:20, a city employee found footprints believed to be from a bear (about the size of a human fist) near the Nishibu Fureai Center annex in Senbiki, Seki City. Later the same day at about 19:20, a person driving on a prefectural road in Mutegawa-cho Atobe, Seki City, sighted a single black animal that was captured on a dashcam. The police also reported a bear sighting in the area on May 11.

Seki, Gifu

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Kotobuki-shirasebuchi, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Nagiso Azuma, Nagano

Size: adult

Shiojiri Hirooka-Kataishi, Nagano

Around 2 PM on May 20, a bear was sighted in Sasaga, Matsumoto City, Nagano.

Matsumoto, Nagano

Ueda, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Nagiso Tadachi, Nagano

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

Tsumagoi Saikubo, Gunma

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Niekawa, Nagano

On May 17 a single bear was sighted in the scrub woodland beside a pitch at Sugadaira Kogen in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture during a soccer match. About 100 players and guardians left the area and there were no injuries. The area has reportedly had previous bear sightings.

Ueda Sugadairakogen, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Around 18:00 on May 15, 2026, a member of the local hunting association reported to the city hall that they had sighted one adult bear about 1.5 meters long in Soga, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture. Police arrived at the scene but the bear had already left; they are patrolling the area and warning residents.

Shiojiri Daimon, Nagano

Size: adult

Nagiso Azuma, Nagano

Size: Adult (fully grown)

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

A single juvenile bear was in a small patch of grass along National Route 19.

Kiso Hiyoshi, Nagano

At around 14:15 on May 13, 2026, a report was received that a 'large black object larger than a dog' crossed a farm road in the Miwa district of Gifu City; the city and police are patrolling. Since April there have been repeated sightings and attacks on chickens in nearby Seki City, and authorities say the same individual may be moving between the areas.

Gifu 三輪, Gifu

Size: Adult

Ueda Nogura, Nagano

A moon bear (Asian black bear) about 1–1.2 meters long was located about 500 meters from the Nakasendō.

Nagiso, Nagano

Two bears crossed in front of the car.

Mizunami, Gifu

It was along the roadside. When I approached by car, it ran up into the mountain.

Kani 久々利柿下入会, Gifu

Size: adult (full-grown)

Shiojiri Kisohirasawa, Nagano

Tsumagoi Saikubo, Gunma

I heard there was a sighting.

Seki 千疋, Gifu