Takeshi Amatatsu

I'll admit it: I have a soft spot for the weather guy, and Takeshi Amatatsu is exactly the kind I mean. There's something deeply reassuring about a forecaster who can tell you a typhoon's barreling in or the rain's about to wreck your week, yet still says it with this gentle, take-care-out-there warmth that lands more like a kind neighbor than a doomsayer. Born in Kanagawa in 1975, he's spent his career doing the unglamorous, genuinely hard work of squinting at clouds and pressure charts at dawn so the rest of us know whether to grab an umbrella. Nobody hands out trophies for that, and that's kind of the point. I love that his whole appeal is steadiness over flash, showing up every single morning and making the sky make sense. Honestly underrated craft.

Takeshi Amatatsu is a Japanese weather caster born on April 18, 1975, in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known for his accessible and reassuring on-air delivery of weather information on morning news programs. He maintains an official website at amatatsu.jp and is active on social media platforms including Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). His current agency affiliation is private.

Name (English)

Takeshi Amatatsu

Name (Japanese)

天達武史

Reading

あまたつ たけし

Born

April 18, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit (卯)

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Weather Caster

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://amatatsu.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/amatatsu.takeshi/
• Xhttps://x.com/ama_tatu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E9%81%94%E6%AD%A6%E5%8F%B2

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Weather Caster

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.