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  • Baan Yeepoon village in Ayutthaya displays items from Japanese settlements in Siamese kingdom.
  • A team of Japanese researchers visited Ayutthaya in 1935 to trace the history of the Japanese in Siam.
  • Historical records show the village was established in Ayutthaya in 1616, during the reign of King Song Tham.
  • In 1987, the Japanese government marked the 100th anniversary of Thai-Japanese relations by providing Bt310 million for the Ayutthaya Historical Study Centre and the Japanese village as an annex.
  • As Thai and Japanese historians jointly fill up the annex with historical material, the old building is once again alive with a sense of the past.
  • The Japanese village has been visualised from stories in documents on display, including those showing the arrival of the Japanese in Ayutthaya and their means of livelihood.

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