The showdown on Sunday (March 27) will mark the fourth time in five years that Switzerland have contested the gold medal match in a World Women’s Curling Championship.

Japan will have a second chance to reach the final when they play the winner of tomorrow afternoon’s page 3-4 play-off between hosts Canada and Russia in tomorrow evening’s sole semi-final.

Switzerland opened with last stone advantage and in the first end, their skip Binia Feltscher hit-out a Japan stone to open the scoring with a single point.

The second end saw Japan skip Satsuki Fujisawa come up short with her last stone as Switzerland added to their score with a single steal.

Fujisawa tapped a Swiss stone off the button to score her team's first point in the third end and reduce Switzerland's lead to 2-1, but in the fourth Feltscher had a hit of her own to score one and re-establish her country’s two-point advantage.

Japan scored one more point in the fifth end and had a single-point steal in the sixth to level the score at 3-3.

Switzerland’s breakthrough came in the seventh end when Japan were short with their final effort, leaving Feltscher with a straightforward draw to score three points.

Japan could only score one in the eighth end and in the ninth, Feltscher had a draw to score two more points and take the score to 8-4 in Switzerland's favour, after which their opponents conceded.

"We feel just the best now," said Feltscher, gold medallist at the 2014 World Championships in Saint John in Canada.

"We have a medal and that was our big goal.

"So what comes, comes - gold or silver.

"We played a very good game and we gained a bit from mistakes by Japan because they don't have play-off experience.

"They made one small mistake and we took advantage."

The loser of the page 3-4 play-off will contest Sunday's bronze-medal game where they will face the beaten semi-finalist.