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AIR MAX GOADOME. Black/Volt. IQ7198-001. 1 October 2026 Japan. Distressed Swoosh. Green in the lugs.
Nike dates the Air Max Goadome “Black/Volt” for Japan on 1 October 2026. Style IQ7198-001. Black leather high boot. Volt in the outsole. A worn-looking Swoosh on the lateral wall. US listings around this color have printed $180. Japan tickets on neighboring Goadome SKUs have sat near ¥29,700. Wait for the official yen on IQ7198-001. Do not mix this code with IO7526-237 Baroque Brown or 865031-009 triple black. Those are different uppers.
The last is the 2000 ACG all-conditions boot. Perforated leather. Padded high collar. Metal eyelets. Visible Air in the heel and the forefoot. Deep lug rubber. Embossed Swoosh. Official Nike copy has not rewritten that list for Volt. Leather on top, tread on the bottom, foam plus Air for the walk.
Signal. What happened: Nike scheduled Goadome Black/Volt for 1 October 2026 in Japan. Exact product: IQ7198-001. When and where: Nike Japan and SNKRS that Thursday. Source: the 10/1 Japan brief. Why it matters: the black boot gets a hi-vis sole instead of another all-black pack. Earlier DRIFT: none on this SKU.
A close-up of black Nike Air Max Goadome boots worn with beige socks and olive cargo pants, highlighting the chunky black sole and visible Nike Air units.
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Goadome left ACG as a boot that could take weather and still show Air. That sentence is still the product. The collar is tall and padded so the ankle reads work, not runner. Metal hardware is the tell from across a platform. Perforations in the leather are the breath line so a high shaft does not turn into a sauna on a dry day. Lugs are cut deep enough to look like trail rubber on wet tile. They will not replace a winter boot on ice. They will replace a black sneaker when the street is wet and the outfit wants height.
Visible Air sits in two places. Heel and forefoot. Not a single 90s window. The units take the pavement hit so the leather shaft does not have to. Foam around them is the everyday layer. On a long walk the boot is still a boot. On a commute it is a tall sneaker with better grip.
It is not a Goadome Low. 2026 has already run low cuts and cut-out experiments as fashion side doors. IQ7198-001 is the original tall last. If a photo shows a short collar or polka holes, it is the wrong file. Rope laces through metal eyelets take a minute to set. Once they set they stay. ACG marks and the embossed Swoosh are the catalog stamps. On this color the Swoosh is distressed, which is the one stamp that actually changed.
Fit: start with another current Goadome if you own one. If you only wear Dunk length, the collar and the lug stack will feel like a different category. That is intended. Width in the toe is boot width. People who size down on Air Max runners should not assume that here.
mutable
Black Goadomes are the default. Triple black already exists. Black/Sesame already exists. Black/Volt keeps the shaft dark and puts the noise underfoot. Distressed Swoosh on the lateral is the other tell. Not crisp embroidery. A worn stamp. Photo the side and the outsole together or the pair reads as another black boot in a grid.
Volt is Nike safety green. On a Goadome it lives where mud would hide a tincture. Night pavement, wet gutter, the green flashes when the lug flexes. Upper stays quiet. Hardware stays metal. That split is the whole colorway. If the volt were on the collar it would be a different shoe. It is in the rubber on purpose.
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October 1 is the Japan autumn boot window. SNKRS and Nike doors first. Popular sizes in a black shaft go first regardless of the sole color. Volt does not change that math. It only makes the pair identifiable from behind in a rack of black boots.
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Construction claims to watch on the PDP: leather grain, whether the lining is the same as the current black boot, exact Air window tint, how much volt sits in the midsole versus only the outsole. Those details separate this SKU from a respray rumor.
IQ7198-001. Black/Volt. Tall last. 1 October 2026. Check nike.com/jp for price and the grain shot before 10:00.
