In 1247, after Battle of Hoji that the regent Tokiyori and his maternal relative Adachi clan destroyed the Miura clan, Shigetoki returned to Kamakura at the age of 50 as Tokiyori requested.
宝治元年（1247年）に執権時頼と外戚の安達氏らが三浦氏を滅ぼした宝治合戦後、50歳の重時は時頼の要請により鎌倉へ戻る。