The one-leg torii at the entrance of Sanno Shrine, Nagasaki

After watching cosmos at Shirakimine Plateau, we visited to Sanno Shrine (山王神社). The shrine, located about 800m southeast of the hypocenter, is famous for its one-leg stone torii at the shrine entrance.

 One of the two pillars of the Sanno Shrine torii was toppled by the A-bomb blast.

The blast also blew away the branches and leaves of the two camphor trees in the precincts of the Shrine, which were then more than 500 years old. At that time, it was feared that the trees might wither and die; however, they gradually began to recover, and now are thickly covered with leaves and branches.