Finally, after a meeting between Saigo and Katsu, Edo-jo Castle was surrendered, and the Tokugawa family moved to Sunpu domain (current Shizuoka) with 700,000 koku (of rice) (a unit of volume: rice 1-koku is 180.39 liter, lumber 1-koku is 0.278 cubic meter) due to the efforts of Kaishu KATSU, who took the charge of ending the war from the Yoshinobu side, with the intervention by Tesshu YAMAOKA, and with petitions from Tenshoin and Prince Kazunomiya.
慶喜の意を受けて勝海舟が終戦処理にあたり、山岡鉄舟による周旋、天璋院や和宮の懇願、西郷・勝会談により決戦は回避されて、江戸開城され、徳川家は江戸から駿府藩70万石へ移封となった。