Mrs. OSINT Challenge 3

If you have been following along, you may remember we solved two out of the three available challenges at the time as practice exercises. Today, we will complete Mrs. OSINT’s third challenge, which is our first official challenge from this website. Let’s get started!

Challenge 3

Tasks:

1. City/State/Country (10 points):
   • Determine the city and country where the photograph was taken.?
2. Specific Location (10 points):
   • Identify the name of the lake or park depicted in the image.?
3. Event (10 points):
   • Ascertain the event occurring at the time the photograph was taken.?
4. Timeframe (10 points):
   • Based on visual cues, deduce the likely month the photo was taken.?
5. Photographer’s Position (10 points):
   • Determine the specific vantage point or location from which the photo was captured.?

Because of the colorful boats and the scenic view with the cherry blossoms, I knew a reverse image search would give me the results I was looking for. Sure enough, the first result was from “Go Tokyo: The Official Travel Guide,” and it featured Chidorigafuchi Moat with pictures of cherry blossoms and boats.

It is on this website where we find the answer to our first question about the general location of the picture: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, in Japan. I used this information and matched the location using Google Earth, as seen below.

Now that we have a positive match of the location, we know the picture was taken in Chidori-ga-fuchi Park. A quick Google search on boat events hosted at this park took me to the Chiyoda City Sakura Festival.

Finding the festival on this website also gave us a time frame: March – April. Now the last thing left is to find the specific location from where the picture may have been taken. Using the location I used before to match the pictures, we can guess that the picture was taken close to these coordinates: 35°41’26″N 139°44’51″E. Image below shows estimated location.

Tasks:

1. City/State/Country:
2. Specific Location:
3. Event:
4. Timeframe:
5. Photographer’s Position:

Solutions:

1. Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan.
2. Chidori-ga-fuchi Park.
3. Chiyoda City Sakura Festival.
4. Between March and April.
5. Around 35°41’26″N 139°44’51″E.

This was a nice little challenge to start our journey with Mrs. OSINT. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. If you did, I suggest you stay tuned for more content like this. There is so much more to learn about open-source intelligence. See you next time!

Resources

• https://www.mrsosint.com/where-in-the-world-is-mrs-osint-challenge3/
• https://www.gotokyo.org/en/spot/45/index.html
• https://visit-chiyoda.tokyo/en/sakura/