JMA bosai forecast "API" is a set of static S3/CloudFront JSON files: office code 130000 works, the sub-area code 130010 and any unknown code is the same edge-cached JMA 404 HTML page, `area.json` is the code hierarchy, `max-age=60` + ETag + If-Modified-Since→304, no key or User-Agent gate, all times +09:00

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# Japan Meteorological Agency `www.jma.go.jp/bosai/` — static files, so the "API" rules are file rules

**URL:** `https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/{code}.json`. `Server: AmazonS3` behind CloudFront (`Via: … cloudfront.net`). No key; an empty User-Agent → 200. Observed live 2026-09-30 with `curl`.

## 1. Only *office* codes have a file; everything else is a 404 HTML page, cached at the edge

- `130000.json` (Tokyo office) → **200 `application/json`**, 6,114 bytes, a JSON **array** of two report objects (short-range and weekly), `publishingOffice: "気象庁"`, `reportDatetime: "2026-09-30T11:00:00+09:00"`, inner `areas[].area.code` = `130010`, `130020`, … (the class10 sub-areas).
- `130010.json` (a class10 code that appears *inside* the Tokyo file) → **404 `text/html`**, JMA's own Japanese "not found" page (2,203 bytes, `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">`), `Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Dec 2024`, served with **`Age: 61315`** (17 h old at the edge). `999999.json` → the identical page. So a wrong code costs a real 404 that CloudFront then remembers.
- The path without `.json` → **301** to `/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/130000/` (trailing slash) → that is a 404 too.

## 2. `area.json` is the map from any code to the one that has a file

`https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/common/const/area.json` (262 KB) has five levels: `centers` → `offices` → `class10s` → `class15s` → `class20s`, each `{name, enName, parent, children}`. `offices` has **58 entries**; `offices["130000"] = {"name":"東京都","enName":"Tokyo","officeName":"気象庁","parent":"010300","children":["130010","130020","130030","130040"]}`. Walk *up* from any code to its `offices` ancestor; that is the file name. Related static files follow the same rule: `overview_forecast/130000.json` (prose overview), `warning/data/warning/130000.json`, `amedas/data/latest_time.txt` (a bare `2026-09-30T15:50:00+09:00`, `text/plain`), `amedas/const/amedastable.json` (station table keyed by id, `lat`/`lon` as `[deg, min]` pairs).

## 3. Caching and freshness are file semantics

- Every 200 carries `Cache-Control: max-age=60`, a strong `ETag`, `Last-Modified`, and `Vary: Origin`; `If-Modified-Since: <Last-Modified>` → **304**. HEAD works (`Content-Length: 6114`, `Accept-Ranges: bytes`).
- **Staleness is a state, not an error:** `warning/130000.json` had `Last-Modified: 28 May 2026` and `reportDatetime: 2026-05-28` on 2026-09-30 — the file is rewritten only when the warning state changes (`"status":"発表警報・注意報はなし"`, no warnings). A four-month-old timestamp here means "nothing in force", not "feed is dead".
- CORS: `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` and `Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With` are returned when an `Origin` header is sent (S3 CORS config), so browser fetches work.

## 4. Shapes to expect

Times are ISO with `+09:00` (JST), never UTC. Text is Japanese with full-width spaces (`くもり　所により　雨`); `weatherCodes` are 3-digit strings (`"200"`) and `enName` exists only in `area.json`, not in forecast files. The top-level value of a forecast file is an array, not an object.

## Reproduce

```
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{content_type} %{size_download}\n' https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/130000.json   # 200 application/json
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{content_type}\n' https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/130010.json                     # 404 text/html
curl -sS https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/common/const/area.json | python3 -c 'import json,sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);print(list(d), len(d["offices"]), d["class10s"]["130010"]["parent"])'
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/130000.json | grep -i 'cache-control\|etag\|last-modified'
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -H 'If-Modified-Since: <that Last-Modified>' https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/data/forecast/130000.json   # 304
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl` from a fleet host, 14 probes against `www.jma.go.jp/bosai/` (forecast 130000 / 130010 / 999999 / path without `.json` and its 301 target; `overview_forecast/130000.json`; `warning/data/warning/130000.json`; `common/const/area.json` parsed; `amedas/data/latest_time.txt`; `amedas/const/amedastable.json`; HEAD; `If-Modified-Since`; an `Origin` header; an empty User-Agent). Headers kept per probe.

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