#1. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2938231460_393d9fd250.jpg
― cherry blossom, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)
Some midwest shithole?
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)
yeah i was gonna guess somewhere in michigan
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)
or maybe it's toledo?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)
Kiev?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)
i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)
god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?
hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)
is someone gonna tell the answer?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)
if in the US, Pittsburgh?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)
i don't think it's the US
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)
no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)
hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!
http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)
helpful clue
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
ya none of that anywhere else in the world
looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.
oh lol jho :D
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
minsk
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)
actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)
Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)
ah got it,
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)
(by doing the ailsa thing)
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)
I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)
No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
birmingham, al?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
google is for cheaters
canada?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
Pretty sure you are
#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
ok montreal alisa wins next city
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
istanbul?
oh boooooring xp to lol canada
my error was to GIS rather than GS
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
ankara
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:49 (seventeen years ago)
I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)
Baghdad?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)
actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
Granny Dainger's is Montreal
― Jibe, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
lol
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)
haaaaaaaa
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)
Ed - Lahore, right?
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)
^win
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)
#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)
THATS MONTREAL???
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
many xps obv
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)
google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)
haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)
#3 url gives it away though
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:12 (seventeen years ago)
#3 is not very easy for Europeans
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)
I'm guessing somewhere in Africa, I was going to say former French colony (building on left looks colonial) but if they really are driving on the left, then former British colony. There are more options if it was former French though
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, October 27, 2025 12:26 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
you were right on all three accounts ;)
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 October 2025 20:09 (one week ago)
https://i.ibb.co/fVbsxykY/image.png
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 October 2025 18:31 (one week ago)
Tijuana
― budo jeru, Friday, 31 October 2025 18:34 (one week ago)
tijuana - damn :)
― ledge, Friday, 31 October 2025 18:38 (one week ago)
pretty sure this is the location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ftRXYe38gxrnZuxL6
― ledge, Friday, 31 October 2025 18:41 (one week ago)
excellent work, this was probably the longest it took to solve one of mine (3 mins 22sec)
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 October 2025 23:09 (one week ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/cdRqSkSC/Untitled.jpg
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 04:47 (six days ago)
Might be stretching the "city" part, but . . . the railroad tracks look narrower than usual (USA usual, anyway). I thought those trees in the center of the left side vegetation clump might be Italian Stone Pines, but not sure, and I think those are common in many areas anyway.
― nickn, Sunday, 2 November 2025 05:45 (six days ago)
I'm pulled in two directions here!
Initially I was thinking somewhere in Oregon or Southern Idaho. But at same time something is pulled me towards New South Wales
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 06:33 (six days ago)
I think this might be El Fuerte, on the Chepe train line through the Sierra Madre but nothing else to go on but gut.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Sunday, 2 November 2025 13:16 (six days ago)
a little bit further back
https://i.postimg.cc/W2tJGXB1/Untitled.jpg
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 14:16 (six days ago)
Guessing this is somewhere in the US Midwest. Re the New South Wales suggestion, that might work for the hills in the background, but I don't think the trees look very Australian.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 2 November 2025 14:22 (six days ago)
I'd abandoned the NSW idea and was leaning into Idaho, until I saw the station. I don't think the station fits for the US
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 14:24 (six days ago)
I'm not good with Aus/NZ landscapes at all though
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 14:25 (six days ago)
I didn't even mean NSW I meant Victoria, I got them mixed up
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 14:27 (six days ago)
based on those cloud formations i'd say the city is likely in the northern hemisphere, or also possibly in the southern hemisphere
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 November 2025 16:59 (six days ago)
I'm pretty certain this is the line that goes from Wellington to Palmerston in New Zealand, the stations are very familiar. I don't think it's either of the Hutts or Silver stream so Masterton maybe?
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:09 (six days ago)
Definitely not North America
― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:21 (six days ago)
xp on the right track hur hur
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:26 (six days ago)
Wellington to Palmerston in New Zealand
I was looking at the other Palmerston on south island, hills kind of fit
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:34 (six days ago)
Dunedin has one of those masts from the first pic
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:42 (six days ago)
oh there's another palmserston? lol.
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:54 (six days ago)
ok i kinda doubt anyone wants to hunt over every railway line on the south island so it's woodville nz. someone do another one!
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 18:35 (six days ago)
d'oh that is the north island. woodville is on the north island of new zealand. i'm basically amelia bedelia.
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Sunday, 2 November 2025 18:36 (six days ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/sj8bXXnV/girltrain.jpg
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Friday, 7 November 2025 01:37 (yesterday)
The roof slopes are too shallow to be northern Japan so somewhere more middle or southern. But that leaves a lot of Japan!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 November 2025 06:25 (yesterday)
is it Japan? no overhead lines or 3rd rail...
but if so those rails look pretty bad for japan, maybe some bumfuck inaka hamlet 30km outside of Takayama if those are the alps in the bg.
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 November 2025 08:36 (yesterday)
those houses look Japanese indeed, but the yellow sign at the train platform says PLATFORM in English... Okinawa?
― StanM, Friday, 7 November 2025 09:37 (yesterday)
Except... Okinawa hasn't had a railroad since 1945, unless this is for some industrial purpose?
― StanM, Friday, 7 November 2025 09:53 (yesterday)
it is indeed japan which i thought would be pretty obvious - houses don't look like that anywhere else afaict. as far as the city goes it's probably hard to guess so if no one does so in the next day or so i'll spill it. mainly i just wanted to share the little girl doing jumping jacks.
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Friday, 7 November 2025 13:49 (yesterday)
Japan definitely one of those countries that difficult to mistake for anywhere else. Pinning down the region is another thing entirely though, other than roof angles for snow and I don't know how definitive that is either
I've half an eye on a particular region but going to look a bit more first
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 November 2025 13:55 (yesterday)
I was thinking around Nagoya/Gifu (which would tally with the Takayama mention above), but I've lost faith in that now, I don't think anything I saw that made me think that is region specific
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 November 2025 16:45 (yesterday)
"guess the bumfuck inaka hamlet"
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 November 2025 17:05 (yesterday)
100% not Nagoya unless you're talking about a regional specific micro commuter railway that touches the edge of the outer suburbs.
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 November 2025 17:07 (yesterday)
Definitely a regional specific micro commuter railways that touches the edge of the outer suburbs of somewhere which I thought might be Gifu but now I've no idea
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 November 2025 17:20 (yesterday)
oh wait, the previous 2 pics are also from the same countryside?
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 November 2025 17:51 (yesterday)
I can only see one photo!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 November 2025 17:58 (yesterday)
the two railroad pics from a couple of days ago
― StanM, Friday, 7 November 2025 18:52 (yesterday)
No, we solved that. They were in New Zealand.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Friday, 7 November 2025 18:57 (yesterday)
yall were close it's down the island a bit - tsuyama
― she freaks, she speaks (map), Friday, 7 November 2025 19:41 (yesterday)
ah oops, that English sign wasn't relevant at all, then. Thanks! xpost
― StanM, Friday, 7 November 2025 19:50 (yesterday)
As someone who has spent decades working and traveling around Okayama prefecture, I really had no clue, embarrassingly enough.
But on the other hand that's like... 2.5+ hours away from civilization.
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:09 (yesterday)
Ok, let's have a quickie
https://postimg.cc/TyQhszCG
― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:36 (yesterday)
Try again
https://i.postimg.cc/JnCJsmXy/image.png
― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:37 (yesterday)
To me to you
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Friday, 7 November 2025 23:02 (yesterday)
That's in Marmaris, isn't it?
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Friday, 7 November 2025 23:03 (yesterday)
27 minutes, I said it was a quickie!
― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 November 2025 23:06 (yesterday)
Re: Tsuyama, here's the exact spot. The original photo isn't actually from streetview. Definitely wouldn't have found this without knowing it was in the Tsuyama area
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6ukQafFgAeT3u74v6
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 8 November 2025 06:50 (ten hours ago)
It wasn't super straightforward to find even knowing it was Tsuyama!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 8 November 2025 06:54 (ten hours ago)
Re: Tsuyama, here's the exact spot. The original photo isn't actually from streetview. Definitely wouldn't have found this without knowing it was in the Tsuyama areahttps://maps.app.goo.gl/6ukQafFgAeT3u74v6― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, November 7, 2025 10:50 PM (forty-four minutes ago)
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, November 7, 2025 10:50 PM (forty-four minutes ago)
lol, i was gonna say after looking at the OP pic "this is truly bumfuck inaka but.... why are there no rice fields?"
but then... pivot the streetview POV 90 degrees to the right: それでな
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 November 2025 07:41 (nine hours ago)