Packaging and Accessories

Themed keyboards, especially if part of a whole series, usually have fancier packaging. This holds true for the Akko 3084 World Tour Tokyo with its two-piece packaging that comes inside a plastic wrap to begin with. The outer sleeve is pink to go with the Sakura color scheme that has become synonymous with Japan for mechanical keyboards and custom keycaps, and we see the company logo and product name being sidelined by the design elements consisting of Sakura cherry blossoms, a Koinobori, multiple renditions of the Maneki-neko, and the Torii around a larger render of the keyboard on the front. On the side, a sticker informs us of the switches for the sample inside, and the back is adorned by a minimalist render of the keyboard with salient marketing features and specifications to the right. There are no seals here, with the inner box simply sliding off the outer sleeve.


The inner box, also made out of cardboard, has a simpler design with a mostly black color scheme. The Akko logo in a radiant purple greets us on the front, and company contact information has been put on the back. We also find a double flap on the side, which keeps the contents inside in place during transit.


Opening the box, we see the keyboard inside two layers. The top layer is a molded plastic cover that can be used as a dust cover as well, and then there is a soft foam wrap all around the keyboard for further protection on the way to you. This is complemented by cardboard on all sides, also as a barrier to keep the accessories neatly tucked away. A QC sticker and a manual are seen underneath the keyboard. The manual is light on details and pretty much useless for a non-Mandarin speaker, with some very basic English used merely to reflect the keys for the various controls. Thankfully, Epomaker has a really good online manual here that goes over everything, including setup and pairing in Bluetooth mode, as well as onboard programming and the pre-programmed layers. The issue is that unless you go out of your way searching for it, there is no note anywhere during the unboxing experience to alert you of its existence.


Akko includes a nice metal wire-style keycap puller with the logo on the handle and wires long and thick enough to easily remove keycaps for replacement and/or cleaning without the risk of scratching the sides of the keycaps, as is the case with the cheaper plastic-ring pullers most others include. We also see a detachable cable in pink to match the keyboard that goes from USB Type-A to USB Type-C, which points towards the adoption of Type-C connectivity in wired mode and for charging for wireless mode. It should not surprise you anymore, but there are more Akko logos on the cable connector housings as well.


Given the 3084 is an 84-key, 80% form factor keyboard, we do not get a lot of room for novelty keycaps. However, this has not deterred Akko from including ten R4 1u keycaps and one R2 2.25u keycap. Fitting with the theme again, we see these are thick PBT keycaps (average wall thickness 1.34 mm) with dye-sublimed designs on the top and sides as applicable. Backlighting is really not a thing here—the keyboard itself does not support any backlighting, and the focus is instead the novel design itself, which includes the aforementioned elements, but also a cartoonish interpretation of hair sticks in use, a hand fan, and a bonsai tree.