TOKYO KEYBOARD EXPO” was held on September 23, 2025.
The organizers of the event are Yusha Kobo, a self-made keyboard specialty store, and zFrontier, a leading keyboard community in China.
This is the first keyboard exhibition and sales event in Japan to invite “foreign keyboard brands,” and the event is so popular that tickets are sold out.
Thanks to your support, tickets for TOKYO KEYBOARD EXPO have been sold out.
– Yousha Kobo (@yushakobo_shop) September 22, 2025
No additional tickets will be issued or sold on the day of the event.
Tomorrow is expected to be very crowded. Please be careful and allow plenty of time to use the restrooms, etc. #tkx25 pic.twitter.com/u9UZRS0wvz
This article will report excerpts from the day’s events.
Representative of GreenEchoes Studio
He launched his own media as a site operator and web writer, and now plans and manages multiple corporate media. He often types heavily in his work, and in his search for greater efficiency, he became addicted to the keyboard swamp and established “GreenKeys”.
TOKYO KEYBOARD EXPO is so popular that people line up even an hour before the doors open.
TOKYO KEYBOARD EXPO opened at AKIBA SQUARE on the 2nd floor of Akihabara UDX.
It was located just outside the Akihabara Electric Town exit.
We arrived at the venue at 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes before the show began, and there was already a waiting line.
Many times this number of people lined up before the doors opened at 10:00 a.m., and the excitement in the hall accelerated as soon as the doors opened.
One row that stood out was the row of supposedly purchasing keyboards with left and right split trackballs.
KawamuraThere must have been about 100 people in line.
The products seemed to sell out in no time.
KawamuraI also talked with a zFrontier member who was at the event about the “popularity of split keyboards” in Japan, and he also said that it is “unique to Japan.
In China and other countries, the integrated type is still very popular, and the split keyboard is not that popular.
He said that small keyboards of 40% size are gradually becoming popular in China.
Source Booths
Here is a photo-heavy report on the booths that were exhibited on the day of the event.
MWKEYS
One keyboard that stood out at MWKEYS was the MASS 80 keyboard, scheduled for release in November.
The machined aluminum body and top frame are available in a variety of colors.
In particular, the modeling on the reverse side was incredibly elaborate, and many people were attracted by its mechanical look and picked it up.
80% TKL size with a large LCD display in the special key area.
A touch panel type displaying a variety of information.
KawamuraIn addition to the status inside the PC, various other features, such as music player jacket photo/media control, will be added in future updates.
In addition to these, the company also exhibited high-quality double-shot keycaps and PBT Dye-Sub keycaps.
DARK FORCE
On display at the Dark Force booth was a keyboard called Fib(68).
It was a very high quality keyboard with a great sense of design as a keyboard.
KawamuraThis is going to be a hit in Japan!
A keyboard with this kind of taste can already be satisfied just by placing it as an interior decoration.
KBDCraft
KBDCraft was unique even within the framework of DIY keyboards.
What a keyboard that can be assembled into a case with parts that look like Lego bricks.
The keyboards lined up in a row have a pop look, just like toys.
Many were particularly interested in this “Lilin”.
monograph/Tobalog
The crowds were constant from the time the doors opened, and I regret that I could only take this one photo among the crowd.
The booth was very popular because of the combination of Mr. Horiguchi, a popular YouTuber, and Mr. Toba, famous for his “tobalog.
Kawamura I was allowed to touch a friend’s Conductor, and a trackball that size is fantastic.
It does not get in the way when typing the keys in front of you.
Akko/Monsgeek
The Akko/Mondgeek booth, which along with Epomaker releases a wide variety of keyboards, was crammed with a wide array of keyboards.
Many of the keyboards have Japanese layouts, giving the impression that the company is designing its products to meet Japanese keyboard needs.
Of particular interest was the Akko MU01 keyboard.
The case of this keyboard is made of “rosewood” wood.
Rosewood is a beautiful dark brown wood used for guitar fingerboards.
The brass-like accents also match the rosewood very well, giving it the look of fine furniture.
KawamuraIt appears that wood wax is included in the package, and it is a “grow keyboard” with the furniture.
KEYTOK
The KEYTOK booth, famous for manufacturing NuPhy keycaps, was lined with a variety of NuPhy keyboards they are working on.
The lineup includes many pop but stylish keycaps, such as the “Smile Turn to 90’s Keycaps” and Godzilla motif keycaps that have been introduced in our media.
Wuque Studio
The closest Japanese reading may be “Woochi Studio.
The brand name may be unfamiliar to Japanese people because of its pinyin pronunciation.
What caught my attention was this keyboard.
The decoration like a mechanical clock is very stylish.
KawamuraIs it a prior exhibit?
I couldn’t find the name for a moment.
Other items on display included aluminum keycaps.
Jio. & Associates
I personally thought, “This will surely be popular in Japan,” at Jio’s booth.
The 23-year-old appears to be designing all of this on his own and plans to sell it in GB.
The two keyboards on display were a 40% Daisy layout and a 35% QAZ solenoid layout.
In particular, this orthogonal layout keyboard was outstanding.
The design with many margins is irresistible.
It had a three-piece construction, with the bottom made of stainless steel, the middle layer made of brass, and the top made of machined aluminum, making it super heavy, which was hard to imagine from its appearance.
Keyreative
The Keyreative booth, which is also a close friend of Greenkeys, displayed a number of new low-profile keycaps.
The HHKB Studio Snow, with dedicated keycaps for the HHKB Studio, was also an eye-catching exhibit.
KawamuraThis project was realized in collaboration with Greenkeys.
A mold was created and designed from scratch to create a keycap shape that matches the track points.
The company is probably one of the best keycap manufacturers in the world in terms of its technological capabilities, with a mock-up of the recently developed “side double-shot” keycap on display.
Also on display was the TP-1 by French keycap designer Biip.
It was attached to the “Geist” of the German keyboard brand Geistmaschine.
As attractive as the keyboard is, the fine-line fonts and colors of this Biip design are as good as it gets.
Owlab
Owlab is famous in Japan for its QWERTY KEYS and neo series.
Many keyboards were on display, including the neo ergo, which boasts an astonishing cost performance that is “not worth the price” in a good sense, as well as the QK Alice.
KawamuraCompared to other booths, there seemed to be a great number of people typing as if they were checking the sound of their typing.
Lofree Japan (Sanyo Godo Kaisha)
At the Lofree Japan booth, many people were trying out the Lofree Flow Lite JIS, a Japanese keyboard with impressive split spaces.
Also on display was the actual “Flow 2,” a crowdfunding success, and many were surprised by its high degree of perfection.
The sale of keycaps in bulk was also very popular, with people constantly crowding the booth.
Epomaker
Like Akko, Epomaker, which boasts an overwhelming product lineup, boasted the largest volume of exhibits of all the booths, with a wide variety of keyboards on display.
Unlike the other booths, it was very impressive that many women came to see the show.
The product lineup was also soft and impressive, and many of the staff explaining the products were women, so it is likely to attract a new demographic in Japan as well.
KawamuraIt seems that female keyboard fans are gradually increasing in the Japanese keyboard scene.
I got the impression that there were more female customers than at Keeket.
Continued in Part II.
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