Thanbyuzayat is a small town of the Mon State, 30 kms south of Mawlamyine. The town of Thanbyuzayat was the northern terminus of the infamous Burma-Siam Railway, dubbed the ”death railway” by the thousands of Allied prisoners of war and Asians who were forced by the Japanese military to build it. This is still to this day an active station on the Myanmar Railways system. The local authorities in the district have constructed a small museum as a memorial to the victims of the railway construction. According to the some documents, there are up to 100,000 Asian civilian labourers from Burma Malaya and Indonesia as well as the many Allied POWs, died on the railway construction. The little museum badly needs additional resources to improve the fabric of the structure and organize its content. The other places recording the historic events at this town, are Japanese-built temples and a small museum with a locomotive, which marks the beginning of the "death railway". Two miles outside the town is the ancient city of Waguru (13th century). The walls are still plainly visible and the view from the hilltop is wonderful.