Kanchanaburi to Bangkok

The train back is the same third-class ordinary train that brought most people out, with ceiling fans, windows that open and a flat ฿100 fare for foreigners from any station on the line. You buy the ticket at the window on the day, take any free seat, and the trains don't sell out. No. 260 leaves Kanchanaburi at 07:05 and No. 258 at 14:43, and both start further up the line, at Nam Tok and over the Tham Krasae viaduct, so at the River Kwai Bridge station you board at 06:59 or 14:34.

The 14:43 is the one most people take. It's a day in town and an evening in Bangkok, and it reaches Thon Buri at 17:40 after about three hours through the cane fields and past the chedi at Nakhon Pathom. The 07:05 suits an early start for a flight or a meeting later in the day.

If you came out on the weekend excursion train, No. 909 from Hua Lamphong, your round-trip ticket already covers the ride back, which reaches Hua Lamphong at 19:25.

Buses back to Bangkok leave Kanchanaburi's bus terminal in the town center through the day, from early morning into the evening, and take about two hours to the Southern Terminal, Sai Tai Mai, in Taling Chan on Bangkok's west side. The fare is around ฿110 at the window, and booking sites list Kanchanaburi Express at about ฿130 and GO Family's coaches at about ฿240. From the Southern Terminal a taxi or Grab gets you into the city.

Vans run from Kanchanaburi to the Mo Chit van terminal in Chatuchak, which suits the north of the city and Don Mueang, and tourist minibuses run to Khao San Road, picking up at guesthouses and near the bridge; ask where you're staying or book on 12Go. Buses and vans are the way back after the last train at 14:43.

A private car takes about two hours on the M81 Bang Yai–Kanchanaburi highway, which has charged tolls of ฿45 to ฿150 for a car since January 2026, usually included in a booked fare. On 12Go, sedans from Kanchanaburi to Bangkok mostly cost ฿2,500 to ฿2,800, and a car straight to Suvarnabhumi or Don Mueang costs about the same as one into the city. For an early flight it's the easy answer, since the first train doesn't reach Bangkok until 09:35.

From Erawan Falls, bus 8170 runs back to Kanchanaburi town in about 1.5 hours, and the last one leaves the park at 16:30, so it connects with an evening bus to Bangkok but not with a train. From Hellfire Pass, about 80 km northwest of town, the train option is No. 258 from Nam Tok at 13:00, which runs through Kanchanaburi to Thon Buri; otherwise go back to town and take a bus.

Nam Tok is the end of the Death Railway, and No. 260 leaves there at 05:20 and No. 258 at 13:00, on the same ฿100 ticket all the way to Bangkok, crossing the Tham Krasae viaduct and the River Kwai bridge on the way.