To provide work shoes for a high lift worker, formed in low shoe shape so as not to impede the bending motion of ankle parts, allowing the peripheries of heel parts to be firmly held even on an inclined walking surface, making it easy for a user to acquire unevenness, slipperiness, or the like of the walking surface as a feeling of the soles of the feet, and facilitating long-time work in a crouching position.

The work shoe includes a toe core that has an outer peripheral wall with no bent piece projected inward at the lower end, and an upper wall forming one storage space covering the whole toes together with the outer peripheral wall; and an upper body that stores the toe core at the tip. The bottom face of the upper body excluding from the tip close to the vicinity of the thenar of the foot is provided with a mid-sole formed of an elastic material, and the bottom face of the upper body and mid-sole is provided with a shoe sole formed of a flexible material.