In this paper, we introduce a concept of quasihyperbolic John spaces (with center) and provide a criteria to determine spaces to be quasihyperbolic John. As an application, we provide a simple proof to show that a John space with a Gromov hyperbolic quasihyperbolization is quasihyperbolic John, quantitatively. This gives an affirmative answer to an open question posed by Heinonen (Rev. Math. Iber, 1989), which has been studied by Gehring et al. (Math. Scand, 1989).