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Ottō

Ottō (Japanese: オットー)

History

The store was founded by Asao Takabe in Nishitenma-6 [ja]-chome Kita-ku, Osaka in 1977. It started primarily selling business shoes for men at a discounted price. It is the first shoe store in the Kansai region to sell "secret shoes", a shoe that makes people 6 to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) taller.^[1]

Following the Japanese asset price bubble bursting in 1993, the store hung a banner saying "No more, we are quitting!" (もうあかん　やめます!, Mō akan yamemasu!). It closed in February 2016.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b 今さら本当の身長言えない」　靴のオットー復活“上げ底”ネットで人気 ["I can't tell you my real height now" Otto shoes revived "floor soles" popular on the internet]. Sankei Business. August 20, 2016. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
^ もうあかんやめます：靴店大阪・天満で４０年本当に閉店 [Shoe store in Tenma, Osaka, closes after 40 years]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). February 21, 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2026.

[Sankei1-1] 今さら本当の身長言えない」　靴のオットー復活“上げ底”ネットで人気 ["I can't tell you my real height now" Otto shoes revived "floor soles" popular on the internet]. Sankei Business. August 20, 2016. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2026.

[2] もうあかんやめます：靴店大阪・天満で４０年本当に閉店 [Shoe store in Tenma, Osaka, closes after 40 years]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). February 21, 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2026.

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