A monkey evades dozens of net-wielding police officers and chasing press after sitting down on a sign board for more than two hours at a busy station in Tokyo, Japan.

The monkey was spotted at the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at about 0940am (0040 GMT).

Around 30 police officers and other officials cleared the area and surrounded the animal with netting, but at noon it jumped off the information board and escaped through the crowd.