The Shōbuike Kofun is located on the lower southern slope of a ridge near the border between Kashihara and the village of Asuka, on the southern edge of the Nara Basin Most of the mound has disappeared due to erosion, leaving two ceiling stones exposed, but it was originally a hōfun (方墳)-style square tumulus approximately 30 meters on each side, with a height of 7.5 meters.

The chamber is made of two tiers of evenly-faced granite boulders topped by three ceiling stones.

Two hollowed-out house-shaped sarcophagi made of hyaloclastite from the Kakogawa River basin in Hyogo Prefecture are placed on the north and south sides of the burial chamber.

[2] It is theorized that the burials are that of members of the imperial family, as the tombs of Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō are also located on the southern extension of the central axis (Suzaku-oji) of Fujiwara-kyō.

The site is about a 15-minute walk from Okadera Station on the Kintetsu Railway Yoshino Line.