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While descending the Inariyama course, I witnessed a black shape moving down the slope ahead. It was some distance away, so I cannot be certain.

Hachioji, Tokyo

There was one Asiatic black bear (Tsukinowaguma) on the stairs descending from the rest/interaction area toward the Takao direction. It appeared to be large in size.

Hachioji, Tokyo

While descending the Inariyama course during trail running, I heard a loud rustling as if an animal was pushing through the bushes on my front left. When I looked toward the sound, I saw what appeared to be a black animal—likely a bear—running away quickly within about 50 meters. Although I was wearing sunglasses, it looked about 1–1.5 meters long, so I believe it was a bear. I had been running downhill with bear bells, so I think it noticed human presence and hurriedly fled. I didn’t have time to stop and take a photo, and the location is approximate. I was measuring distance by GPS as I ran, and it was just past 2 km from the summit, but I roughly identified the spot by comparing with someone’s recorded track on YAMAP. There may still be some margin of error. I posted this because there was a sighting reported yesterday at Yakoin.

Hachioji, Tokyo

Uenohara Arata, Yamanashi

Size: unknown

Fujimi, Nagano

Tsuru Ohata, Yamanashi

Size: cub

Fujimi, Nagano

Kōfu Atagomachi, Yamanashi

Walked from Nagasaka Ushii Pond toward Kitz Nagasaka Factory.

Hokuto Nagasakacho-Nagasakakamijo, Yamanashi

Hokuto Nagasakacho-Nagasakakamijo, Yamanashi

Discovered footprints in the field that appear to be from a bear-like animal.

Hokuto Sutamacho-Wakamiko, Yamanashi

Hokuto Sutamacho-Wakamiko, Yamanashi

Bear-like animal tracks were found in Sutama-cho Wakagami, Hokuto City.

Hokuto Sutamacho-Wakamiko, Yamanashi

Tsuru Ohata, Yamanashi

Kōfu Shimo-Obinacho, Yamanashi

A driver commuting through Shimootana-machi, Kofu City, saw one bear about 1 meter long crossing the road.

Kōfu Shimo-Obinacho, Yamanashi

Otsuki Nanahomachi-Asakawa, Yamanashi

Hokuto Sutamacho-Wakamiko-shinmachi, Yamanashi

Hokuto Sutamacho-Wakamiko-shinmachi, Yamanashi

Observed for about one second a black, rounded, quadrupedal animal about the size of a medium dog—possibly a bear cub or a wild boar—running roughly 30 meters uphill into the brush. Location: where the Onnazaka and Sawa trails merge on Mt. Takagawayama.

Otsuki Hatsukarimachi-Shimohatsukari, Yamanashi

Kōfu Yamamiyacho, Yamanashi

Around 18:25 on 2026-05-30, a bear was sighted in Hirasemachi, Kofu City.

Kōfu Hirasemachi, Yamanashi

Otsuki Otsukimachi-Otsuki, Yamanashi

Kōfu Tokojimachi, Yamanashi

Hokuto Kobuchisawacho, Yamanashi

From the hiking trail beside the old Koshu-kaido Sasago Tunnel, near Sasago Pass on the trail toward Mt. Sasago Karigaharasuri, I encountered a cub about 50 cm long approximately 50 meters ahead of my position. The cub ran up the slope on the left side of the trail, toward the Enzan side, from Sasago Pass and disappeared. I watched the same spot for about five minutes but did not see any adult bear.

Otsuki, Yamanashi

Size: adult (fully grown)

Fujimi, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Sasagocho Yoshikubo, Otsuki City, around 2:10 PM on May 26.

Otsuki Sasagomachi-Yoshikubo, Yamanashi

Otsuki Sasagomachi-Shirano, Yamanashi

Kōfu Tokojimachi, Yamanashi

Size: Adult

Fujimi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Fujimi, Nagano

Around noon on 2026-05-25, a bear was sighted in Fujimi, Fujimi Town, Nagano Prefecture.

Fujimi, Nagano

Otsuki Hatsukarimachi-Nakahatsukari, Yamanashi

Otsuki Tomihamamachi-Torisawa, Yamanashi

Uenohara Arata, Yamanashi

One bear was sighted in a residential area of Miyabuchi, Matsumoto City; police searched but did not find it.

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Shinbashi, Nagano

Two bear sighting reports were received from residents in Miyabuchi 3, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Size: unknown

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Around 12:20 on 2026-06-13, a bear was sighted in Shimauchi, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture.

Matsumoto Shinbashi, Nagano

One bear was found trapped in a snare along a forest road in Kawagishi, Okaya City, and was culled.

Okaya Kawagishi, Nagano

A 110 emergency call reported seeing a bear in Jōyama, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Joyama, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Kanai, Shiojiri City on 2026-06-11.

Shiojiri Kanai, Nagano

Size: Adult

Matsumoto Joyama, Nagano

Size: Juvenile

Shiojiri Midoriko, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Kaminishijo, Nagano

Size: Adult

Okaya Kawagishi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Okaya Kawagishi, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Sasa-ga, Matsumoto City, around 5:30 a.m. on June 6.

Matsumoto, 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

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, 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

Shiojiri Hirooka-Harashinden, Nagano

Size: Adult

Okaya, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Shimonishijo, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

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

Matsumoto Shimadachi, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Fujimi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

Size: Adult

Fujimi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Fujimi, Nagano

Around noon on 2026-05-25, a bear was sighted in Fujimi, Fujimi Town, Nagano Prefecture.

Fujimi, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

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

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

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

Okaya Minato, 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: Unknown

Matsumoto Kotobuki-shirasebuchi, Nagano

Size: adult

Shiojiri Hirooka-Kataishi, Nagano

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

Matsumoto, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

At around 10:17 on June 15, a bear was sighted in Yokokawa, Tatsuno Town.

Tatsuno 大字横川, Nagano

One bear was sighted in a residential area of Miyabuchi, Matsumoto City; police searched but did not find it.

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Shinbashi, Nagano

Two bear sighting reports were received from residents in Miyabuchi 3, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Size: unknown

Matsumoto Miyabuchi-honmura, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

Around 12:20 on 2026-06-13, a bear was sighted in Shimauchi, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture.

Matsumoto Shinbashi, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: adult (full-grown)

Kiso, Nagano

A 110 emergency call reported seeing a bear in Jōyama, Matsumoto City.

Matsumoto Joyama, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Kiso, Nagano

Size: adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Adult

Matsumoto Joyama, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Sasa-ga, Matsumoto City, around 5:30 a.m. on June 6.

Matsumoto, 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

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

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

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Niekawa, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Shimonishijo, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-hachibancho, Nagano

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

Matsumoto Shimadachi, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Kiso 大字薮原, Nagano

Two Cubs/young bears spotted running across hikers path

Shiojiri Narai, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

Size: Adult

Shiojiri, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Soga, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Shiojiri Daimon-nibancho, Nagano

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

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

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

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

Adult size bears

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Unknown

Matsumoto Kotobuki-shirasebuchi, Nagano

Size: adult

Shiojiri Hirooka-Kataishi, Nagano

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

Matsumoto, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Asahi-machi Kamikemi, Takayama City, around 07:00 on June 15.

Takayama 朝日町上ケ見, Gifu

Size: cub (young animal)

Otaki, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Kaida Kogen Nishino, Kiso Town, around 9:50 AM on 2026-06-15.

Kiso, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Asahicho Ichinoshuku, Takayama City, around 10:00 on 2026-06-14.

Takayama 朝日町一之宿, Gifu

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Asahi-cho Kibiudani, Takayama City.

Takayama 朝日町黍生谷, Gifu

Size: juvenile

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Saw a cub along the road by Lake Ontake

Otaki 崩越, Nagano

Around 7:15 on 2026-06-12, a bear was sighted in Kamiokamoto-cho 5, Takayama City.

Takayama 上岡本町, Gifu

Size: cub (young bear)

Otaki, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: adult (full-grown)

Kiso, Nagano

Size: adult (fully grown)

Kiso, Nagano

Size: adult

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso, Nagano

Around 4:00 PM on June 9, a bear was sighted in Ichinoshuku, Asahi-cho, Takayama City.

Takayama 朝日町一之宿, Gifu

Size: Adult

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Fukushima, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

[The person] immediately hid in the grass, but there was one bear about 1 m [away].

Takayama, Gifu

Size: adult (fully grown)

Otaki, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso Kaidakogen-nishino, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Adult

Kiso Shinkai, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Niubukawa-cho Niiibari, Takayama City.

Takayama 丹生川町新張, Gifu

Size: cub/juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Around 18:45 on May 31, a bear was sighted in Kamiokamoto-machi 2-chome, Takayama City.

Takayama 上岡本町, Gifu

Takayama 上岡本町, Gifu

Size: juvenile

Kiso Mitake, Nagano

Size: cub (young bear)

Agematsu 旭町, Nagano

Takayama 朝日町浅井, Gifu

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Takayama 下岡本町, Gifu

Takayama 高根町中之宿, Gifu

A bear was sighted in Nakahora, Takanecho, Takayama City.

Takayama 高根町中洞, Gifu

A bear was sighted in Asahi-cho Koze, Takayama City.

Takayama 朝日町小瀬, Gifu

Takayama 朝日町小瀬, Gifu

Takayama 下林町, Gifu

Size: juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

A bear was sighted in Shimobayashi-cho, Takayama City, around 19:00 on 2026-05-24.

Takayama 下林町, Gifu

Small black bear

Kiso, Nagano

Size: cub (juvenile)

Kiso, Nagano

Size: juvenile

Agematsu 大字上松, Nagano

Adult size bears

Kiso, Nagano

Size: Juvenile

Otaki, Nagano

Takayama 上岡本町, Gifu

Gero Ogawa, Gifu

Gero Hagiwaracho-Sakurabora, Gifu

Takayama 下岡本町, Gifu

Takayama 下林町, Gifu

A bear was sighted in Shimobayashi-cho, Takayama City, around 19:00 on 2026-05-24.

Takayama 下林町, Gifu

Gero Ogawa, Gifu

From the Seki City safety alert: a sighting of an animal believed to be a bear behind the Heisei Roadside Station.

Seki, Gifu

Seki 下之保, Gifu