Dang, was on you until Alaska fooled me twice in a row.
So did you know where Hakone was, or did you just find it? I gave up zooming in and scrolling and guessed northward based on people being bundled up.

I knew that Hakone is between Tokyo and Osaka (remembered the signs from when on the bullet train), never saw it on the map, just got even luckier in my guessing.

I was initially thinking Southwest too, but then I noticed that all the cars are parked on the left side of the street.

I ALWAYS check that - but got distracted by the setting on that one

C looked like American cars, they were driving on the right side and while there was a middle yellow line there was no yellow on the right edge of the road. So I was pretty sure it was Mexico. The road quality and cars pointed me to northern Mexico so I clicked randomly up there and was only 20 km off.

Also, for A I recognized the Bulgarian flag on one of the houses. Fortunately it was actually a house in Bulgaria. I almost picked something in Italy before I remembered the color order of the Italian flag.

For E, the one with all the cars in the square, the Formula 1 car said "Estonia" on the side in Cyrillic. So I hoped it was somewhat local. Sadly, it wasn't.

D - I knew it wasn't Anchroage, but thought it seemed like too big a town to be Juneau. Shows what I know about Juneau

A. Yes, I know it is Catherine's Palace. Never been there but know it. Unfortunately I have no idea where in St. Petersburg it would be. But because of your comment I didn't settle for just picking a random spot in the city and considering it good enough. I zoomed in and started scrolling all the big parks on the map. Fortunatley got relatively lucky to notice something called Ekaterininskiy Park pretty quickly.

Nailed it to 0.015km.

B. Car driving on the left. Asians in the parking lot so probably Japan. Zoom in on that sign and yep, Japanese. Obviously coastal and mountainous which isn't much help. Based on the shadow direction (since being in Japan shadows probably tend to point northward especially since it appears to be a colder time of year) I'm going to guess it is probably an eastern coastline. But that isn't very reliable for many reasons.

So I'll go random east coast spot north of Tokyo.

And I hit it slightly closer than GD. 383km vs. 459km.

C. First thing is a Swedish flag. Signs on food truck in Scandinavian language make me confident is assuming it is actually in Sweden. Can't really see anything to help me more than that so I'll just pick a random spot on the coast. Since the weather looks nicer (though I honestly have no idea what the weather is like in various parts of Sweden during the summer) I'll go south of Stockholm.

And I miss by 262 km.

D. Well this isn't fair. Pretty sure it is Juneau since A) the store makes it clear it is Alaska and B) I've been to the biggest cities in Alaska and it doesn't really look like Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Kodiak.

Also, that street is just ringing a faint bell so I'm wondering if it is in the area we walked when were there for the Disney cruise.

Zoom in on Juneau first, yep. Egan is main drag along water. There's Egan and Main.

0.009km.

E. Ok, bridge over water. Sign in Spanish. People look more South America than Spain. Mexico or Chile (the only Spanish speaking countries I seem to ever get).

Cars are nicer so I'd guess it is nearer a city or resort area. Can't quite tell if the water looks coastal or more like a big lake. Leaning towards edge of Yucatan region due to the trees.

No. That sign doesn't say "prohibido" it says "proibito." So either it is misspelled or more likely is actually Portuguese and so this is Brazil (I usually rely on extra h's in what looks like Spanish to know I'm looking at Portuguese, so funny that it is a missing h that clues me in if I'm right). Unfortunately that isn't really an improvement in narrowing down space.

No idea where I'd find a mesa like formation in Brazil. So now just to guess something within a couple hundred miles of a big city.

Quick scan shows a lake northwest of Sao Paolo with a bridge over it. Good enough for me.

And it turns out it was another lake about 520km ENE from there but in that same circle around Sao Paulo so I'm pleased with myself.

A - cars look Eurpoey. Chuch looks Eurpoey. Lots of peaked roofs, so northern Europey. Huge building in the background looks industrial, so how about Gemany. Sure, northern Germany near the coast....

One country off, darn.

B - Fvck that's cold. Umm, can't make out the flags. Maybe some sort of science post near the pole? Greenland?

Oooooh, Svlabard, of course!

C - Howthefeckshouldiknow. One lane road, no clue on driving side. Trees seem pretty northern. Could even be Alaska. Kenai river? Sure, let's go with that.

Ooooh, so close....not. At least I was in the ballpark latitude-wise. ****

D - Fvck I really should learn to at least phonetically read Cyrillic if I'm going to keep playing this game. Don't see a dash cam, but still probably Russia, right?

Yep. Throw the dart at Moscow...and of course nowhere near.

E - Oh hey, is that Cabo? I think it's Cabo.

It's not Cabo.

A. The small car and the van combine to make me think Europe. Coastal grasses confirm that it is a coast area and not just a lake in the distance. Steeply sloped roofs suggest somewhere that gets a lot of snow in winter. Could easily see this as Scandinavia, England or Germany. Not a lot for me to go on. Will guess somewhere southern Scandinavia and see what I get.

Amsterdam. Doubled GD's distance.

B. Pretty sure that is a Norwegian flag. There is a sign on a building that might help if it were clearer. One street sign also suggests Europe. General tone of photo suggests to me that this may actually be early spring so I'm go reasonably far north in Norway along the mountain range that forms border with Sweden.

Svalbard. ****, seeing that I now suspect that was on the blurry sign on the building. Didn't go far enough north. But still closer than GD.

C. Almost nothing to go on. Somewhere that gets enough snow to have those tall sticks to mark the edge of the road. Not super snowy area, though based on the height of them. But could still be anywhere in the world. Going to guess somewhere farther south but high mountains. So with nothing else to go on I'm gong to guess in the Cascades but could just as easily be somewhere in Russia.

Yep. Sweden. GD looks farther away in Alaska but benefits from Mercator projection.

D. Cyrillic. So probably Russia, Bulgaria, or Ukraine. Orthodox churches. Let's see, we have a billboard for a 3D Cinema off behind the trees. That building says "Torgovy Center." Which confirms it isn't Bulgaria (also Cyrillic alphabet since for some reason I remember than центр is център in Bulgarian). Still, could be most of the European SSRs. That other building has ads for "financing and credit" as well as taxis. The sign on top of the building says "Gostinitza" which unfortunately is just "hotel". Other end of the building is advertising computers.

Lost of fun straining my faint memories of Russian but no real help. Looks like terrain in the distance is relatively flat. Will go with western Russia to keep Urkaine and Belarus in play. But no real idea.

Slightly beat by GD again. One of these Russian spots will actually give me a benefit for reading Cyrillic.

E. Pretty obviously Mexico but could easily be wrong. Ocean says Pacific more than Caribbean to me but that is a gut thing. Fair sized c shaped inlet. Just because it is the first general match I saw for an inlet with a road right on the beach I'll pick this place at the northern armpit of the Gulf of California.

And GD kicks my but on that one.

#1: kph road sign, heavy pitch to roof implying snow, large industrial looking building, I guessed Helsinki, too far north.

#2 Polar bear sign, parking lot full of snow mobiles, Norway flag, water to the north, Toursit feel. Searched to find a way up north town with a museam. I guessed too far south.

#3 Crap, another of these stupid middle of nowhere ones. Birch trees, mostly short trees, Orange "snow poles" marking the edge of the road. Rolling hills, I'm going Yukon but edging a bit east just in case. Bang on the monet north/south, not so much east west.

#4 Ahh, I've been here before on Geogueeser. Not that it helps me much, east of Moscow I think.

#5, Not US, Ocean to the South, Spanish signs along with some english, Mid-sized waves, And.... Not Puerto Rico. Gaahhh. I lose again.