Tokyo railway service disrupted after train hits man, 6 injured

This photo provided by a train passenger at Keikyu’s Umeyashiki Station in Tokyo’s Ota Ward at around 11:30 p.m. on July 9, 2025, shows a train car with a broken windshield. (Kyodo)

TOKYO (Kyodo) — A man was hit by a train at a station near Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Wednesday night, leaving him, the driver and four passengers injured and disrupting the railway service through the evening, local police and a fire department said.

The man, in his 20s, apparently jumped in front an oncoming express train from the platform of Keikyu’s Omorimachi Station at around 10:20 p.m., they said, adding that the windshield of the train was broken but none of the injuries were life-threatening.

The accident occurred two stops before Keikyu-Kamata, where a branch line to the airport starts. Train services were disrupted between Shinagawa and Keikyu-Kawasaki, with some suspensions until around 12:20 a.m.