To provide a handrail structure for a counter and the like avoiding the posture of a user and a walker from getting unbalance or from stumbling caused thereby, being suitable for especially children and the elderlies, and having externally superior design and appearance with an extremely simple constitution.

This handrail structure for a counter and the like is so constituted that the top of a body 2 of a counter for storing articles in its inside 1 has the height almost same as the waist, a horizontal top plate 7 is mounted on its top part, the front edge 3 of the top plate 7 is extended frontward slightly from the front face 4 of the body 2, a fixed-width of narrow recessed groove 5 of appropriate uniform depth is engraved rearward from the front edge 3 of the top plate in a part a prescribed interval apart 7 and parallel to the font edge part 3, and a cross section part from the recessed groove 5 to the front edge part 3 is formed into a handrail-shaped projection 6 so that a person postured along the counter can hold it.