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Picking a slightly different point of view on Google StreetView and cropping the image a bit, it looks like this:
The awning on the left is above the entrance of the station, and to the right of it is a bar (green marquees).
However, in the movie it looks like this:
They used a mirror image of the scene here and un-mirrored the signage via CGI. Great find, @QBranch!
Nice to know. Was there a good reason to do that?
At least the Bond/Leiter thing in the helicopter is considered a goof on https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movies/tb_mistakes, though I don't know how an editor can goof like that: "Watch closely when Bond and Leiter are flying over Palmyra in the helicopter - Bond must be sitting on the right of the helicopter as Leiter is clearly seen piloting the machine from the left hand seat. Yet Bond manages to look out of the left hand side of the helicopter with his binoculars. The fact that Bond's hair parting changes sides suggests that the negative has been reversed for some reason."
Oh, and yes (same link): "Writing on Domino's scuba mouthpiece backwards in one shot as she emerges from the sea, revealing use of a mirror image." If they had done it on purpose, they would have tried and succeeded in hiding that, though not by CGI as today.
I am currently on vacation and am not really in the mood for the next one, so if someone wants to go ahead with the next one?
Looks like Amsterdam, if you ask me, just from looking out the windows. Though considering the arrangement and size of the windows, it's not Tiffany Case's apartment no. 4 (as per page 13 of this thread), but it still may be Reguliersgracht 36 again. Only one story lower than Tiffany's place. Nice apartment, either way.
And of course you are correct. You should see the rest of the place, it's really nice, but this one was the only one showing a bit of the outside. I figured otherwise it might be too difficult. On the other hand, not many cities have such windows.
Anyway, the car chase ultimately ending up at the Feldstadt U.S. Air Base (which doesn't exist) starts in a quaint Bavarian village in a Pinewood set recycled from (as I read) The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I don't know if this is true, but it is still Pinewood until Bond "borrows" the Alfa Romeo from the lady in the phone booth (remember phone booths? They were really typically yellow and looked like the one in the movie at the time).
But as soon as the Alfa breaks out of that village square, it takes a tight right turn, coming from "Kolk" street toward a sign that says "Hoher Steinweg" to the left and "Möllentordamm" to the right. All those are in the "old town" of Spandau. A bit later, we see a police BMW with a Munich licence plate (wrong even in context, since this scene obviously plays in Franconia...and later police cars have a Nuremberg licence plate, which would fit), and then a police motorcycle speeds out from "Kolk" street in pursuit of Bond's Alfa which he actually "borrowed" about 500 kms away.
A bit later, Bond's car is seen in Spandau forest (at the junction of Schönwalder Allee and Oberjägerweg) meeting those Nuremberg police BMWs. The chase goes on across the railroad crossing at Johannisstift (a social organisation providing care for elders - and the picture I last posted, although the crossing has been deactivated since OP). Johannisstift was the place where my wife and I donated the remaining books of my deceased mother-in-law in 2014, by the way, since they have a second-hand book store.
You can follow most of this - and the following - via Google Maps (StreetView).
Bond is later seen driving on the Autobahn to Feldstadt. Trouble is, there are exit and direction signs identifying this as what is now the A115, originally built as AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs- und Uebungsstrasse - automobile traffic and testing road - also used as a racetrack before the war) in the 1920s and leading south from the centre of Berlin to the freeway connections to Hannover and Munich, and later Leipzig etc. You see Bond driving south with the famous 1926 Berlin radio tower in the background and ultimately turning off at Hüttenweg exit, then taking the underpass under the autobahn and the railway a bit later, though those two bridges have been replaced since OP was filmed. The direction sign which now reads "Charlottenburg" (a Berlin district) pointing north was replaced by "Heidelberg" in the film, which makes no sense either, since no Autobahn in Franconia has Heidelberg as its destination. But the "bridle path" traffic sign on the left hand side of the road that Bond takes under the bridges is still there!
I give the filmmakers credit for equipping the vehicles employed with Franconian (or at least Bavarian) licence plates (N-, BT-, WUN-, ER- etc.), but it is still clearly a Berlin Autobahn and nowhere near Southern Germany.
The rest of it is RAF Lakenheath, I suppose.
Maybe I should have posted this on the "Whinging, Moaning..." etc. thread. But then, I never thought much of Octopussy anyway.
I can post a proper picture here and on the Pilgrimage discussion later today. And do I have a story to tell.
But it's still frightening what Google Lens finds out these days. I fed your photograph (@RichardTheBruce) into the search engine as a test, and although there seems not to be a single other image taken from your point of view, the building pops up all over the place, mostly from the front which as an image on this thread would really have been TOO easy.
Anyway, @CommanderRoss, I'm delighted to say it's your turn once more. And not mine. ;-)
Ok, this one is either too easy, or may mislead people for a bit (which I hope).
Update: I'm afraid I was wrong, but would still like others to provide the real solution.
That latest image. Do I need to name the exact James Bond Jr episode?
I wasn't aware that it was in a James Bond jr episode, but just in AVTAK. So please elaborate to enlighten the likes of me, who have never encountered James Bond jr.
Well done @Qbranch, it is, indeed, the theatre on the lake of Bregenz where the Tosca scene played out, only, obviously, this time with a different stage.