Many of the court nobility moved to Tokyo after the Meiji Emperor, but the Kami Reizei family remained in Kyoto in the residence they had lived in since the Edo Period.
また、多くの公家は明治天皇に従い東京に移住したが、上冷泉家はその後も京都の江戸時代からの屋敷に住み続けた。