To provide walking shoes, and sports shoes for general use, having no difference between right and left, of low cost, which are easy to put on, and easy to take off, which are light, and suitable for walking or working, and which are excellent in strength.

The walking shoes or sports shoes having no difference between right and left are shaped with no difference between right and left as safety shoes, so that they can be worn without wondering which side to wear, causing no uncomfortable feeling around the arch of the foot at the time of emergency, for working, or especially in a case of a disaster. A tip core is inserted to a tip part of an instep, and the instep and the bottom part are provided with a steel sheet. A protruded part including flexible jelly is provided inside the bottom part to adjust to the shape of the arch of the foot when the walking shoes or sports shoes are put on.