World Tour Tokyo Family

I mentioned before how the keyboard was just one part of an entire family of products under the Akko World Tour Tokyo design, and Epomaker had sent along a few more to show off. So instead of doing a separate overview for them, I combined everything into a single page of the keyboard review itself.


Epomaker sent along the desk mat, a wrist rest, and an OEM profile keycap set. We see packaging for all three is in line with that of the keyboard itself—a pink color scheme has been adopted throughout. A closer look also reveals the design elements on the packaging, as well as city and landmarks named on the boxes. The box for the wrist rest is long and slim to match the product inside, and it is a two-piece box with seals on the side. Similar to a fancy gift box, the top cover can then be lifted off to reveal the wrist rest, which comes inside a plastic wrap to keep it pristine and free of dust out of the box.


Two sizes of the wrist rest are available, in TKL and full-size options to match the respective keyboard form factors. I have the TKL size wrist rest here, which comes in at 360 x 80 mm compared to the 440 x 80 mm for the larger variant. Akko says a "milk fiber" is used on the top, with thermal printing for the design resulting in a good balance of print quality, vivid colors, longevity, and the ability to wash/wipe as needed. The wrist rest otherwise employs a high density memory foam construction and has a tacky (not the negative connotation of the word) on the bottom for added grip. It is quite comfortable to use, and the height matches the keyboard as well.


Packaging for the replacement keycaps might as well be taken from the keyboard itself, especially if going by the back. We have the same style of an outer sleeve over a black inner box, with a purple logo and contact information on the inner box and two double flaps keeping the contents inside in place.


Opening the box, we see a foam sheet for added protection and the first set of keycaps underneath. There is a second layer below, with another foam sheet in between. This ensures the top surface of the keycaps is protected by foam, and the keycaps are all contained inside cardboard rows as seen above. We have a full set of keycaps for a 104-key US ANSI layout, and each keycap is placed on a print to help you put things back in place easily. Some novelty keycaps have been included as well, but not as many as with the keyboard itself. It is overall a smaller set compared to the Akko Neon keycaps we saw before, likely because getting the design extrapolated for multiple form factors and keycap spacings was not feasible. The keycaps are otherwise identical to those already seen in detail, so we move on!


The desk mat comes in a larger box, rectangular and thicker than the one for the wrist rest, of course. The design of the packaging is similar otherwise, and there are side flaps that open up to immediately reveal the desk mat. No seals on the outside, no plastic wrap for the desk mat.


The desk mat is one size only, the 900 x 400 mm in surface I expect from a typical desk mat. This is large enough to accommodate a full-size keyboard, wrist rest, mouse, and a few other things if necessary. The design is all the more impressive because of the larger size, and made of natural rubber with a fabric top that gets a similar print job as the fabric on the wrist rest. The edges are stitched, and the bottom has a non-slip finish courtesy the rubber composition.


The TKL wrist rest no doubt fits the Akko 3087 World Tour Tokyo TKL keyboard better, with this 3084 version coming in slightly shorter. It also shows how much space you save by going with this form factor vs. TKL, although both are dwarfed by the much larger desk mat. I imagine the Akko 3096 will be smaller than the full-size version of the wrist rest, and perhaps now is as good a time as any to mention that the other keyboards in this family come in 60%, TKL, 96%, and full-size (108-keys) form factors as well, with some offering dual wired/wireless connections and others only USB. There is also another keycap set with Japanese characters in addition to English ones for the alphabet.