Hostel from Hell (Narita)

(This story should have been posted whilst we were in Japan but with our flight to China and this country not allowing access to most  websites it has been delayed)

Imagine an American phyco thriller film set in the outback where people are a rare sighting, the buildings around look like military bunkers and the atmosphere is eery. All we could think about was the horror film 'the outback', which is about backpackers travelling too far into the middle of no where in outback Australia. They ran into a phyco killer and that's basically the film, it's shit but we related to this film a lot whilst on our 42 hour stay in Narita.

So, once we arrived back in Tokyo from Kyoto on our amazing night bus we then had the joys of navugating ourselves to Narita airport. We weren't getting a flight but our only directions to our next hostel were from the airport. (It was in the middle of no where so we didn't want to risk finding our way there on our own accord). From the airport we had to get the local shuttle bus (we are amazed we managed to figure this out) and it drove into the Japanese countryside and eventually stopped outside a 7/11 shop - all we knew was that we had to get off at a 7/11. All that was here was that, a police station, a fire station, a gas station, a laundrette and a hair dresses. The buildings were all metal bunkers that looked neglegted.  It was a strange place. Then we arrived outside our hostel...

This too was a metal bunker that looked like it could fall apart. We stepped into the front door and couldn't see anybody but a man hanging up washing on the decking through the lounge (this makes it sound plush but the doors to the decking were a series of dirty windows and is was covered with a mosquito net) we said hello and recieved an odd responce so we just waited until he finished his washing. 15 mins later he decided to acknowledge us but he was very cold, he then walked off and left us in the living room wondering what the hell is going on (turns out he's the owner and lives there too). The time hit 4pm and we were eventually invited up the stairs (which are outdoors) to our dorm room. Sam thought it was okay but Cj wasn't a fan of the bed being on the floor, so much so, after 5 mins he had accidently put his foot through the paper door. Now we are proper shit scared of the hostel owner.

We wanted to get out of that hostel fast before we pissed him off even more so we explored the local area in search of food. We learnt somethings;
1. Every bunker that looks like a r restaurant is in fact a laundrette
2. When you do eventually find a restaurant it is empty with only a few locals (good atmosphere though)
3. Do not end dinner past 8pm,  we ended up walking back to our hostel in the dark in the small eery town and we didn't have a clue where we were going
4. Always have a torch on you

Eventually we made it to our hostel, only to find that the owner had disappeared somewhere and all the lights were off. We were a little on edge when we sorted our bed out and kept seeing lights outside. It was a long night but we made it to the morning ready for our bike ride round the village.

We are now in Beijing and have a host of photos to add. Watch out for Cj's post on the Chinese, highly entertaining. .