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It's the kind of world a lot of us would like the real one to be like. Our world isn't that exciting, everything has already been explored and what remains to be know can only be through complex researches that most people can't aspire to participate in.
People aren't interesting either, it feels like they're all the same thanks to the nicely formated "culture" made by huge corporations. Also most of the time they're just dumb, uncaring, rude, or all of those at once.

On the other hand Gensokyo is a beautiful world with crazy things happening regularly. All the characters are very distinct from the others, each with their own unique appearance, personnality and abilities. They're well-behaved and elegant, even when they hate each other. Conflicts are solved by beautiful display of abilities rather than mindless violence even for those powerful enough to theorically be capable of killing entires armies by themselves.

There's also the fact that Gensokyo exists somewhat in "real time" with the real world. It's not happening in a distant past or in the far future, it's not some kind of alternate world which looks like Earth but isn't. It's right there, embeded in our world somewhere hidden by a barrier of fantasy. The world of Touhou can hardly be described as "realistic" but by saying that mystical creatures, gods and magic actually do exists but most of them have just "retired" into Gensokyo really makes the world feel "real": it's not a fictional world with its own physical laws, it's just a part of our own world that's hidden away.

Also, unlike most series Touhou doesn't have one defined storyline with a beginning and an end. Instead it's composed of multiple self-contained short stories each contributing to deepen the world but never changing it drastically. Your favorite characters will always be there (just hope it's not the forturne teller), interacting with each other as usual.
It's just so comfy. You could live there and life would never be dull, when nothing happens it'd be relaxing, when things happens it'd be exciting. You'd have a lot of cool people to talk to and have fun with.

And then you have the passion of not only ZUN but also all the other creators doing their best to bring this world to life as much as they can.