Witness the much-awaited release of the sneakers/running shoes that will forever change the way your walk, run and exercise!

From the deep-rooted history and concepts of the Japanese Tabi Shoes, you can be sure to provide yourself the much need protection while enjoying the benefits of the “barefoot” effect of walking and running.

This will truly be the mark of the revolutionary shoes that has finally come to rock the running world. Same design applied to the Parkour Tabi Training Shoes – Valtain-X series. Once dreamnt of. Now realized!

Simultaneous local and worldwide release here in Japonista Sole.

All models are available in 23.0 cm – 29.0cm (with half sizes)!

Change the way you walk with La Feet Zipang series.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here is another awesome and silly video collaboration with Tux Team! This video will be featured at our Design Festa booth, together with the previous collaboration!

Video Credits:

Song used: “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back” by My Chemical Romance

Edited by:  Resh Haydee

Get to know more about Valtain X here.

It will start at 11:00 AM until 7:00 PM. Our booth can be found at 4F (ride the big escalator!) near the Restaurant Area. If you cannot find us, please tweet us @ thejaponista (http://twitter.com/thejaponista).

Full View | Facebook Event Page

By Artist ミシー

FIND US at 4F near the Restaurant Area!

Map 1 (first floor) | Map (fourth floor)

For more details and fun, here’s our event page that we will be constantly updating! : )

See you guys there!

The Original Sunny Yellow Okinawa Jika Tabi ….

…. transformed into:

THIS!

The textile (Batik) was shipped all the way from Indonesia for this project.

View entire gallery here!

It’s none other than Harajuku’s Fairy Princess / Harajuku Fashion Walk Organizer / PARTY BABY owner herself, Kuma Miki! We asked her to remake one of our Psychedelic Jika Tabi shoes and she’s rocking it!

 View the entire photoshoot here!

This coming May 12 and 13, Japonista Sole  will be participating in Asia’s biggest art event, Design Festa! This is a big dream come true to us so we would really appreciate it if you guys come and support us~! : )

From Design Festa’s Official Website

We will be showcasing various products from Japonista Sole, La Feet and Valtain X!

Please make sure to drop by our booth because we will be giving away our collectible posters, limited edition shirts, artist collaboration postcards, and more! And of course, we want to meet YOU in person..!

For the meantime, here’s a teaser of our recent artist collaboration with Illustrator Mishie (ミシー)!

The Geisha in the illustration is wearing Osaka Jika Tabi.

Design Festa details:

Event Detail: Original artwork exhibitions, sell and buy, and performances
Event dates: Twice a year (Spring & Fall)
Open hours: 11am to 7pm
Location: Tokyo Big Sight west halls
Booth number: 3,000 booths
Exhibitor number: 10,000 exhibitors

Ticket information:
Advance ticket 800yen(A day ticket), 1500yen(Bothdays ticket)
At the door 1000yen(A day ticket), 1800yen(Both days ticket)

We will be updating our facebook fanpage more often so check us out there!

You can buy some inexpensive but quality goods for your gadget needs in every nook of Akihabara. After all, this place is known as Tokyo’s Electric Town! Enjoy the photos and check out our facebook fanpage for bigger / high resolution photos~!

If you’re in Tokyo and you want to go here, here’s a comprehensive travel guide. : )

“……… The song is a shortened version of Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance. They are our favorite band, and their album that this song is from has aesthetics that were also inspired and influenced by Japanese culture so we thought it would be appropriate to use our Japonista Sole kicks while doing a tribute video for them. They’re a very inspiring group for me and my friends, not only because of their music and art but also because of their heart. When the earthquake hit, they came up with a campaign called Sing It for Japan… so we thought of putting many things we love into one project and we came up with our video.

What do you think? We can only think of “awesome” to describe this! We were all shocked when Jin sent us the link of this amazing video. Didn’t quite expect that!

Also, you can read more about Death Berry here. Be amused!

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Video Credits:
Death Berry is Jin
Kombat Kibble is Miguel
Noodle Kid is Aki 
Flutter Shark is Melo

Dr. Kow is Erving
Count Badmullet is Dom
Wolfman is Bok
Skeletor is Rayson

Video mainly shot by Erving, partially by Jin
Video editing and effects by Jin (who picked up After Effects for the first time just for this)
Concept and direction by everyone involved
Costumes put together by everyone involved

Music from the Art Is The Weapon preview (which is a shortened version of “Na Na Na“) by My Chemical Romance