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, abbreviated as TDMO, is one of the five District Meteorological Observatories of the
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. It has jurisdiction over the Kantō and
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, Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi,
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, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka,
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, Mie, Ishikawa,
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and Fukui, and is responsible for acquiring meteorological, hydrological, seismological and volcanological data and forecasting local weather conditions in those areas through its local meteorological observatories. It also fills the role of for the
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. The TDMO is based inside the JMA Meteorological Satellite Center located in Kiyose,
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The LMOs within TDMO's supervision


Local Meteorological Observatories

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Aviation Weather Service Centers

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Resident Offices for Volcanic Disaster Mitigation

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Tokyo District Meteorological Observatory
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