--- title: Challenge 2: Cotton Candy | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of an OSINT geolocation challenge identifying a photo taken on Takeshita Street in Harajuku, Tokyo. The writer pins the exact coordinates using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/challenge-2-cotton-candy-gjzpzqkuz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Challenge 2: Cotton Candy | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of an OSINT geolocation challenge identifying a photo taken on Takeshita Street in Harajuku, Tokyo. The writer pins the exact coordinates using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/challenge-2-cotton-candy-gjzpzqkuz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gJZpZqKuZ.png og:image:alt: Challenge 2: Cotton Candy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Challenge 2: Cotton Candy **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of an OSINT geolocation challenge identifying a photo taken on Takeshita Street in Harajuku, Tokyo. The writer pins the exact coordinates using the street's iconic arch, identifies the district via a quick search, then tracks down which nearby cotton candy shop the photographer likely visited and confirms its Friday closing time by cross-referencing Google Maps with the shop's Instagram video. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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