Another Shinsengumi barracks alongside the Yagi residence, used from the corps\'s earliest days. Many early members including Okita Soji, Nagakura Shinpachi, and Harada Sanosuke lived here. It is also said to have been the site where members who violated the corps regulations committed seppuku, including Yamanami Keisuke and Takeda Kanryusai. Currently not open to the public but can be viewed from…

The Maekawa residence is an old family estate in the Mibu district of Kyoto that rose to historical prominence during the turbulent final years of the Edo period. In 1863, the Roshigumi, a group of samurai retainers summoned to Kyoto by the shogunate, began using the Maekawa residence alongside the …