Overview

• The prefectural notice covers foothill areas of Chuo, Toyohira, Kiyota, Minami, Nishi, and Teine wards through October 25.
• Sapporo updated its Google Maps–based “Sapporo City Bear Sighting Information” and is distributing alerts via its official LINE account.
• Residents are urged to remove attractants by following garbage rules and securing home gardens, with subsidies and lending available for household electric fences and bear-deterrent gear such as bells.
• City guidance advises avoiding trails at dawn or after sunset, traveling in groups, making noise, and packing out all trash.
• Officials ask people to report sightings or signs like tracks and droppings to the nearest police station, and local media report this is the first comparable surge in two years.