At present, Kurihara tsukaana-kofun Tumulus in Kurihara, Asuka-mura Village, Nara Prefecture is designated as his mausoleum by the Imperial Household Agency, but a leading hypothesis today claims that Nakaoyama-kofun Tumulus at Hirata in the same village, which is an octagonal tumulus including a stone chamber with a side entrance, as the Emperor Monmu's genuine mausoleum.
現在は宮内庁により奈良県明日香村栗原にある栗原塚穴古墳が陵墓に指定されているが、八角墳であり横口式石槨を持つ同村平田の中尾山古墳を真の文武天皇陵とする意見が有力である。