It is named after the aqueduct passing underneath which carries water from the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir to the Central area.

The road was renamed as "Izumo-dori" (出雲通) during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

The east-end is often considered as the start of the road with the rest being sparsely populated with less traffic.

Other than Realty Gardens, all the other relatively old assets are concentrated very shallow into the road itself as proven by the almost-consecutive numbers.

However, in the early 1990s, new properties began to be constructed by extending foundations from Robinson Road.

Number 41A Conduit Road is a deeply secluded pre-war house blocked-from-view by Realty Gardens (No.

Number 41, next door, had a wide history;[1] not only did it feature as the original location of The Foreign Correspondents' Club[2] but it was also the hospital in the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.

Number 2 also has proven history and citywide recognition: it is renowned for housing influential Hong Kong socialites.

On 7 December 1911, a major landslip, caused by heavy rainfall, killed four people at a building site.