Designing the tempo of a family journey
With three generations, the hard part is not where — it is how fast.
The most common failure of travelling with parents is walking their journey at your own pace.
One big thing a day
For three-generation journeys we keep one rule: one major plan per day, everything else arranged loosely around it. Kinkaku-ji in the morning; the afternoon is simply sitting by the Kamo river. Nobody has to push through, and nobody feels time is wasted — those two seated hours tend to produce the best conversation of the trip.
Elevators, reserved seats, the distance to the nearest restroom — we scout all of it beforehand. Get the tempo right, and the age gap stops mattering.