To provide an inexpensively constituted door handle structure which can be suitably used for a door subjected to the application of a passive entry system, and enables a door to be surely and instantaneously unlocked only when a user desires to unlock the door.

This door handle structure 1 comprises a door lever 1, a displacement member 6 which is displaced in such a manner as to be interlocked with the operation of the door lever 1, and a distortion sensor 5; and the distortion sensor 5 is displaced in such a manner as to follow the displacement of the displacement member 6.