Kiritara- Kitchen on the River Kwai

The Bridge of River Kwai is the popular tourist spot in Kanjanaburi, making famour by the classical Golden Award in the late 50’s by the late William Holden. The story of the building of the bridge by the mighty imperial Japanese army during the WW II. Many foreign prisoners of war were used as the forced labor building the railway from Thailand to Burma. Ten of thousands people including the hired laborers lost their lives due the illness and starvation during the cruel war time. This bridge was the product of the W II. The original was bombed by the Allied before the end of the war, and it was reconstructed by the government later. There are many restaurants around the bridge to service the tourists.